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Investigators revealed preliminary details about Thursday's shooting in Uptown.

The man, ID'd by family and friends as Winston Boogie Smith, was wanted on a state warrant for illegal possession of a firearm, U.S. Marshals say.

"It's going to be a celebration of the Black diaspora," he tells New Times. "You have low country and Midwestern. You go down to Louisiana and there's Creole. There's even a Mexican mashup in the Mississippi Delta. The beauty of the International Black Food & Wine Festival is that there are so many cultures to highlight." Smith, whose Hungry Black Man site covers Black cuisine in Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin, Montgomery, and Orlando, as well as Miami, says that he was looking for a way to celebrate all those unique food styles. "In Black culture, there are cooks and che...

“This is a fight. People wishing harm on my own children. This is life and death at this point,” says Ling. Physical and systemic violence against Black Americans is the status quo in the U.S. and as hate crimes against Asian Americans are being reported what feels like every week, there is an urgent need to address the ways that members of both communities have perpetuated and participated in historic and present harm. Asian American hate crimes in 16 of the nation’s largest cities soared by 145 percent in 2020, according to California State University’s Center for the Study of Hate...

Passionate Arkansans are fighting the vilification of pit bulls and other stigmatized breeds through Facebook advocacy and breed-specific rescues. Twenty-nine states in the U.S. allow the passage of breed-specific legislation, which regulates or bans certain breeds, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Among the breeds most commonly affected are American pit bull terriers, American Staffordshire terriers, English bull terriers and other “bully breeds.” In Arkansas, about 40 municipalities had some form of BSL in April 2020, according to the Ani...