Posts by Nicole Martinez
Aldis Hodge takes on the newest version of detective Alex Cross for TV
Actor Aldis Hodge will play Alex Cross in Amazon Prime’s upcoming series based on James Patterson’s books.
Read MoreRest as Resistance
Tricia Hersey calls on history and guides by example in her new book about the importance of rest in a demanding world.
Read MoreDead more than a century, now on research shelves, will Milwaukee’s early poor rest in peace?
Forest Home Cemetery will be the new final resting place for 831 souls who were disinterred from the area’s pauper cemeteries for study.
Read MoreThis Date in History: Nat Turner Confesses to Leading Slave Rebellion
It took over two months to Nat Turner to confess to leading a rebellion that resulted in over fifty lost lives.
Read MoreJustice Department says Mississippi Senate paid a Black attorney less than her white colleagues for years
A current lawsuit alleges that a staff attorney of the state was paid less than her white peers and didn’t receive increases like them.
Read MoreBlack people are receiving racist text messages about picking cotton ‘at the nearest plantation’
Anyone who receives a similar text message is advised to report it to the authorities as the investigation continues.
Read MoreDo We Owe Black Men an Apology?
While the media lambasted Black men for not supporting Harris, white voters were the deciding factor in Trump’s election.
Read MoreAlsobrooks and Blunt Rochester: Black Women Make Senate History
Amid a disastrous loss to President Trump, two Black women have made history as they become representatives for their respective states.
Read MoreShomari Figures wins bid to represent Alabama district embroiled in Supreme Court case
Figures won an election in a district that was redrawn after a judge ordered the previous map to be redrawn for disenfranchising Black voters.
Read MoreColonial Williamsburg Restores America’s Oldest Black Schoolhouse, Uncovering a Legacy of Education and Resilience
Restoration has nearly completed on a school that was determined to have been built in 1759 or1760 according to wood-dating techniques.
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