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Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of The New York Times's 1619 Project, said the events of the past year showed that "steps toward racial progress are always met with an intensive back

Jones Bar-B-Q should be smoking again Fund-raising to rebuild the legendary Jones Bar-B-Q Diner in Marianna seems likely to be enough to restore the James Beard award winner. A pit fire Sunday put the modest diner out of business. But owner James Jones vowed to rebuild and national attention to the fire brought an outpouring of help. Advertisement Two Go Fund Me pages have raised almost $75,000 so far and other money has been promised from separate sources, including, according to the New York...

Fire Damages Jones’ Bar-B-Q, a Historic Black-Owned Business James Jones, the owner and pitmaster of the award-winning Arkansas restaurant, vows to rebuild. A grease fire that started in the barbecue pit of Jones’ Bar-B-Q Diner spread to the roof and burned 70 percent of the restaurant, according to the local fire chief.Credit...Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism March 1, 2021 Smoke doesn’t normally concern James Harold Jones. It was the flames he saw in the barbe...

Dear Stevie:  We’ve never met, but like untold millions of people around the world, I’m a huge fan. I can still remember flipping through my father’s vinyl albums as a boy and stumbling across “Songs in the Key of Life.” Your music continues to bring tremendous joy to people in all walks of life. So thank you. But I have a bone to pick. Earlier this week you wrote an open letter to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., published on the holiday that now bears his name, in which you said: “It ...

OK, OK, we get the point. But theres a small problem. Somehow, on their way to launching a neo-fascist takeover of the United States, the white supremacists ran out of whites. Simply looking at video of the Capitol riot, or looking at the FBIs wanted images afterwards, makes it obvious that the mob of Trump die-hards were multiracial. The two most famous members of the Proud Boys, Americas premier white nationalist group, are an Afro-Cuban and a Samoan. Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander ...

Wyoming Ranks 1st in U.S. Racial Progress, Report Says With Martin Luther King Jr. Day less than a week away and 49 percent of Americans saying the U.S. hasn’t done enough to give black people equal rights to white people, WalletHub on Tuesday released its report on 2021s States with the Most Racial Progress. To recognize the racial harmony America has achieved, WalletHub measured the gaps between black people and white people across 21 key indicators of equality and integration in each of th...