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Black classical artists are turning the pain of the Tulsa Race Massacre into music

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By AJ Willingham It’s hard to see art in the smoldering aftermath of the Tulsa Race Massacre, when White Americans destroyed a wealthy Black community in 1921, killing dozens and leaving entire city blocks in ashes. It’s hard to see triumph in the innumerable chapters of racism, bondage and hatred that have darkened our American story for hundreds of years. But composer Adolphus Hailstork doesn’t want us to look away. He doesn’t want us to cover our ears, no matter how piercing the truth may be. There is art in this pain. And, if you listen, there is triumph, too.

Memorial Day weekend is first maskless holiday in over a year for many Americans as mandates lift

By Aya Elamroussi and Jason Hanna Travel is up, Covid-19 cases are down, and vaccines have been put in many arms. The coronavirus pandemic isn’t over, but Memorial Day weekend is set to look more like it did before the virus upended life more than a year ago. Americans Saturday were experiencing their first holiday weekend since the CDC changed its masking guidance on May 13 — that fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear masks indoors, and they don’t have to keep their distance from others. Mask mandates melted away. As of Friday, California, Hawaii, New Mexico were the

Black Lives Matter co-founder stepping down from organization

By Stella Chan Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has announced that she’s transitioning out of her role as executive director. On Thursday, she said on her YouTube channel, “… I feel excited for me, and my next journey.” Cullors revealed that at the end of 2019 she had stepped back from the organization, but people within BLM asked her to come back during last summer’s uprising. “I didn’t make a public announcement. I really wanted to see the next generation of leadership lead,” she said. “I really had to think about it, like, it’s a lot of work, it’s

An anonymous donor is paying the college tuition of Black athletes who get straight As at a Georgia high school

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By Alaa Elassar Black athletes at a high school in Georgia received the gift of a lifetime when an anonymous donor offered to pay their college tuition if they made straight As. The donor, a community member who didn’t want his identity revealed, was inspired to make change after realizing the lack of diversity in Centennial High School’s athlete scholarship. He reached out to the school’s athletic department with a concern about their program, which required student athletes to have a cumulative grade point average above 90. “When we tweeted out a photo of these scholar athletes after one of

Police accountability provisions hold up reform while activists grow frustrated

By Nicquel Terry Ellis President Joe Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress are facing increasing pressure this week from Black civil rights leaders who say federal lawmakers have made little progress with police reform one year after George Floyd’s death. Activists say they are demanding that the Senate pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which remains stalled amid Republican opposition, though bipartisan negotiators are optimistic about their recent progress. The bill — which includes provisions to set up a national registry of police misconduct, a ban on racial and religious profiling by law enforcement and an overhaul of so-called

States have been offering big prizes for those who are vaccinated. Companies are now doing the same

By Mallika Kallingal What do lotteries, fishing licenses and college scholarships have in common? They’re all part of dozens of innovative freebies being given away for people to get a Covid-19 vaccine, as some states have recently offered big prizesfor people to get vaccinated. Now, companies are joining the same effort. Kroger and CVS Health will begin their get-a-vaccine, win-a-prize campaigns next week. Kroger Health’s giveaway will include five $1 million payouts and 50 chances to win free groceries for a year, according to a statement from the company. “The faster we reach community immunity, the sooner we can all

It’s Memorial Day Weekend. What’s safe to do?

By Katia Hetter As the United States marks Memorial Day Weekend and the start of summer, so many people are planning to travel to places they haven’t been in a year, see friends again, and go to baseball games, concerts and more. With coronavirus infections dropping around the country and more than 50% of adults fully vaccinated, are most activities now safe to do? Can we get together with our extended family and friends? What if we’re vaccinated but some of our loved ones are not—and does it matter if they are adults or children? Are there situations in which

New DHS directive will require critical pipelines to comply with federal cybersecurity measures

By Geneva Sands The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday will mandate that critical pipeline operators comply with several cybersecurity measures, including reporting cybersecurity incidents to the department within 12 hours, according to DHS officials. In the wake of the debilitating ransomware attack earlier this month on Colonial Pipeline, which operates a major fuel pipeline, department officials rushed to enact measures that they believe will better secure the industry as a whole and help identify and prevent cyberattacks. Under a forthcoming Transportation Security Administration security directive, these pipeline companies will be required to report both confirmed and potential incidents to

Biden tasks intelligence community to report on Covid origins in 90 days

By Kate Sullivan, Donald Judd and Phil Mattingly President Joe Biden said Wednesday he has directed the US intelligence community to redouble their efforts in investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic and report back to him in 90 days. The announcement comes after a US intelligence report found several researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and had to be hospitalized — a new detail that fueled fresh public pressure on Biden to delve deeper into the origin of the virus. “As part of that report, I have asked for areas of further inquiry

A Black woman will serve on the Missouri Supreme Court for the first time

By Harmeet Kaur A Black woman will soon sit on Missouri’s highest court for the first time. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson named Judge Robin Ransom to the state’s Supreme Court on Monday, filling a vacancy created after Judge Laura Denvir Stith retired in March. Ransom most recently served on the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, a post that Parson appointed her to in 2019. She previously spent a little over a decade as a circuit judge for the city of St. Louis and was a family court commissioner before that. She also has experience in the St. Louis County

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