With the October session due to end this afternoon, the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has delivered a slate of major decisions in recent days. Here we’ll cover the three most recent.
Category: Race
Will Air Products Desecrate Graves of the Enslaved in Ascension Parish?
April 17, 2023Air Products wants to build a hydrogen and ammonia plant in Burnside, Louisiana, on the former Orange Grove Plantation – once owned by John Burnside who by 1860 enslaved over […]
Long Since Gone, Can Black Residents Regain Thriving Community on Claiborne Without “Monster” Interstate?
April 5, 2023Today, Interstate-10 towers over Claiborne Avenue, cutting a path through the Treme and Seventh Ward. Some residents call it “The Monster,” its massive, concrete pillars lord the raised highway — […]
The TEP Center Takes Charge of The Historic McDonogh 19 School Building to Educate About Local Civil Rights History
February 28, 2023The TEP (Tate, Etienne, and Prevost) Center, 5909 St. Claude Ave., is a community center and organization working as a resource location for the public to discuss and learn about […]
Black Families Suffer More Childbirth Deaths
February 22, 2023Racial health disparities still exist for Black women who have recently become mothers and their newborns. New research published in January 2023 by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows […]
New Study Shows IRS Audits Black Filers More Frequently
February 2, 2023A new study which was a collaboration between Stanford University and the U.S. Department of the Treasury clearly shows that Black Americans are more likely to be subject to audit by the IRA than non-Black filers. According to a new paper presented by Stanford law professor Daniel E. Ho Black and others, taxpayers receive IRS audit notices at least 2.9 times (and perhaps as much as 4.7 times) more than non-Black taxpayers.
Voting Is Key to Racial Equality, Pew Research Center Study Reveals
January 25, 2023“Black Resistance,” the national theme for Black History Month 2023, is a reminder of the ongoing fight against racial inequality. In a new study by the nationally respected Pew Research Center (PRC), 63 percent of Black adults indicated that voting was a key strategy for moving toward equality. Less than half of poll respondents (42 percent) placed protesting in that same category. Only Black Americans age 65 and over consider protests a preferred tactic. Supporting Black-owned business and Black-led communities were also ranked as effective remedies for inequality. Contacting elected officials was considered the least effective tactic among those offered.
Black Alchemy: Remembering Fazendeville Features Forgotten African American Community in St. Bernard Parish at Ogden Museum Exhibit
November 16, 2022The Darryl Chappell Foundation and Ogden Museum of Southern Art are pleased to announce a public exhibition of photographer-in-residence, Aaron Turner, Black Alchemy: Remembering Fazendeville, the culmination of a ten-week residency. […]
Commemorating the Student Movement and the Deaths of Denver Smith and Leonard Brown on November 16th with An Overdue Apology
November 8, 2022November 16, 2022 will mark the 50th anniversary of the shootings of Leonard Brown and Denver Smith on the campus of Southern University in Baton Rouge (SU). Both Smith and […]
Louisiana Officials Ask Supreme Court to Narrow Definition of “Black” for Voting/Redistricting Purposes
October 22, 2022In a lawsuit currently before the U.S. Supreme Court – Ardoin v. Robinson – Louisiana Sec. of State Kyle Ardoin and the State of Louisiana are arguing that the definition of who can be considered “Black” for voting purposes should be limited.
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