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George Floyd was murdered a year ago. Many Black Floridians still can’t watch. Violent images of police brutality have psychological impacts mental health counselors say resemble post-traumatic stress disorder.     Charlie Jenkins, seen here during a recent visit to Tampas Lykes Gaslight Park, asks why it takes such dehumanizing images to move the needle on racial justice. [ MENGSHIN LIN | Times ] When the video first surfaced, 67-year-old Samuel Wright couldn’t watch. Ex-Min...

Freedom of the press is a quintessential part of our democracy. In 1892, journalist and civil rights leader Ida B. Wells investigated and reported on lynchings in the South, making data on racial discrimination and lynching accessible to the public for the first time in the U.S., which led to the publishing of her 1895...

Harvard University fellow Suraj Yengde discussed the importance of solidarity between Dalit and Black communities at a Thursday discussion. The event was hosted by the Comparative Literary Studies Program and South Asia Research Forum. Weinberg Profs. Laura Brueck and Ivy Wilson moderated the talk.  Brueck began the conversation by discussing Yengde’s 2019 book “Caste Matters.” With the book, Yengde said he hoped to revive a rich tradition of global literature, dating back to the 1820s, ...

Opinion: The lessons of Beulah Mae Donald, the mother who took down the Klan CNN 5 days ago Opinion by Cornell William Brooks © Mary Hattler/Mobile Press-Register/AP Beulah Mae Donald of Mobile, Ala., whose son Michael was killed by two Ku Klux Klansmen in 1981, has taken ownership of the United Klans of America headquarters building in Tuscaloosa in a settlement of a lawsuit against the KKK, May 20, 1987. (AP Photo/Mobile Press-Register/Mary Hattler) America is transfixed ...

Not JUST Data Feb. 22, 2021 9 a.m. Illustration by Matilda Luk, Office of Communications; image of Ida B. Wells circa 1895 by Cihak and Zima, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; image of Justice from iStock When Ruha Benjamin was 14, she moved from South Carolina to the South Pacific with her parents, educators tasked with curriculum development and teacher training in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands. To keep the family entertained, her father brought boxes of VHS ta...

Ida B. Wells set out to change the law and ended up inspiring a nation.Now her great-granddaughter Michelle Duster pays tribute in “Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells.”

Here’s a film about Ida B. Wells made in Red Dead Redemption 2 Virtual photography is already a popular trend in Red Dead Redemption 2, and some creators have taken the practice further by making a full on movie in the open-world game. Ida B. Wells: A Red Record is a film made using in-game footage from the western game, overdubbed by narration that explains the characters and storytelling. The picture, just shy of 40 minutes, tells of the life and times of the titular Ida B. Wells, a journ...

Here are Alabama’s 2020 Entertainers of the Year Updated Jan 05, 2021; Posted Dec 31, 2020 Among AL.coms Entertainers of the Year in 2020 are (clockwise from top left) Charles Barkley, Madalen MIlls, the Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema and Ashley Monroe. (AL.com / Getty Images / Madalen Mills / Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema) Facebook Share Twitter Share Check out these Alabama people and movements that made significant cultural contributions locally, regionally and nationally in 2020, esp...