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South Carolina native Lawrence Moore remembers when he saw his father cast a ballot for the first time in 1968. It was a few years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. Black voter registration was surging across the South.
Those years taught Moore, now 70 and a longtime community organizer, a vital lesson: Politicians res...
Jennine Labuzan spent two weeks in federal custody in June — shuttled from her residence in Georgia to Tennessee to Mississippi — after refusing a judge’s order to sign away more than 1,300 acres of land she says her family has owned for generations.
Her arrest and release came after a legal battle she never expected to still be fighting. It started with a name.
Isabella Williams has always dreamed of attending Howard University.
In 1984, her mother enrolled at the historically Black college in Washington but quickly had to drop out due to financial issues. Fast forward 42 years, and now she’s in a similar predicament.
Williams was just four days away from setting out to college from her hometown in Fort Mitchel...
This story was originally published on Mississippi Today and KFF Health News.
...Timothy Williams’ family has lived in the same community for over 150 years, but he is afraid that they are one big storm away from losing it all.
Eight years ago, the Alabama Department of Transportation widened the highway that runs just a few yards from Will...