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AP Photo/Butch Dill "Reparations teach separation," Walker argued. "Slavery ended over 130 years ago." The Democratic-led House is poised to create a commission to study reparation proposals. The former NFL player Herschel Walker on Wednesday said Black Americans should not receive reparations for slavery. A virtual congressional hearing on the issue was being held for House Resolution 40, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, which would create a commission to study reparation proposals. Walker, a standout athlete at the University of Georgi...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Southern Baptists divided over politics, race, LGBTQ policy Divisions over race, politics, gender and LGBTQ issues are roiling the Southern Baptist Convention ahead of a meeting of its executive committee next week By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer February 20, 2021, 2:32 PM • 6 min read The Associated Press Jim Conrad, pastor of Towne View Baptist Church, looks at a copy of a letter from the Southern Baptist Convention's credentials committee on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in Kennesaw, Ga. During an SBC meeting...

AMERICUS, Ga.— Over the past three decades, as the state around him turned ever more resolutely Republican, W. McCall Calhoun Jr. remained an outspoken and unwavering liberal. He gave money to Democrats, ran for office as a Democrat and zealously championed Democratic policies in social circles that were far from sympathetic. If friends admitted they voted for Donald J. Trump, his reaction could be blistering. “He was hard core, there’s no doubt...

Black Diaspora Louis Chude-Sokei: “It was accents and curses, uncles and aunties, cousins and endless trips to Western Union.” February 3, 2021 Diaspora was one of those words from my mother’s “word of the month” or “word of the week” subscriptions. What made it stick out was that I heard it repeated around the table. The word meant the scattering of a people across different lands and countries and languages. To me, this meaning seemed immediate, oppressively intimate. It wasn’t just about the Middle Passage and slavery in the New World. It wasn’t even about our more s...

Some Black communities in Florida have no vaccine access The mayors of the predominately Black farming communities neighboring Lake Okeechobee sent the governor a letter addressing the issue. Author: Associated Press Updated: 4:44 AM EST January 28, 2021 PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — The mayors of the predominately Black farming communities neighboring Lake Okeechobee have sent a letter to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis saying their seniors have no access to the coronavirus vaccine.  DeSantis has given sole distribution rights in Palm Beach County to Publix, but the ...