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This episode of the "Color Code" podcast explores the story of Vertus Hardiman, who was permanently damaged by medical racism

After Kenneth Arnold kick-started the UFO craze in 1947, a group of believers sprang up, claiming that they had sustained contact with flying saucers.

At least six arrests have been made in a heroin trafficking operation in Monroe. Investigations by the Metro Narcotics Unit, Monroe Police Department and Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office have led to the arrest of a man investigators say has been bringing heroin from the New Orleans area in addition to multiple people who have been known to sell the narcotic. On Wednesday, the following people were arrested as a result of the investigation: Commanche Laderius Wade, 26, of Monroe, Ziamber Briausa Leonard, 21, of West Monroe, Cornell Wilbert Smith, 44, of Monroe, Willie Bernard "Big Will" Domi...

Incarcerated Organizer Airlifted to Hospital Following Attack by Prison Guards The beatings follow a lawsuit by the Justice Department against the prison for failing to provide adequate protection from violence. Easylight / iStock / Getty Images Plus By Tensions were higher than usual at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Alabama early on the morning of January 30. A couple of days prior, guards had attacked and choked an elderly incarcerated man, Cat Diamond, in the cafeteria under the reportedly false pretense that he had gotten in line for a second meal. That morning, Robert Earl Council,...

Brutal Alabama prison attack on incarcerated workers By Devin Cole posted on February 3, 2021 Occupied Muscogee Creek Land  Events in this report happened on the next to last day of a month-long strike and “economic black-out” of Alabama state prisons, led by incarcerated workers and called by the Free Alabama Movement. For more on the strike, see Workers World, Dec. 4, 2020.  On the morning of Jan. 30, Alabama correctional officers and sergeants beat and critically injured two incarcerated workers, one of whom was having a mental health crisis, and injured a third. A fourth was beate...