Posts by Nicole Martinez
Black Residents Want This Company Gone. Will Alabama’s Environmental Agency Approve a New Permit?
Residents in one Alabama neighborhood that has been polluted by a nearby manufacturing plant are waiting to see if the company will remain.
Read MoreMeta’s AI image generator really struggles with the concept of interracial couples
Meta’s AI image generator apparently struggles to produce images of interracial couples, a reflection of its training material.
Read MoreA biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant — it’s finally changing
Some Black kidney patients are realizing they were kept off the transplant list because of a racist algorithm.
Read MoreWomen and Girls Living in Cobalt-mining Communities in the DRC Report a “Staggering” Rise in Serious Reproductive Health Issues
A recent report shows the impact of cobalt mining on the nearby communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Read MoreMeet Zach Van Harris Jr., the South Dakota Historian Unearthing the State’s African American History
by Jonathan Kelley and Lydia Moran, ArtsMidwest Zach Van Harris Jr. is a fountain of names. They come running out of him in a steady current. There’s Oscar Micheaux, the versatile, resilient filmmaker whose early 20th century films countered prevailing narratives about Black life. There’s York, an enslaved man who joined Lewis and Clark on their expedition and helped build…
Read MoreLouis Gossett Jr., Oscar-winning actor from ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ and ‘Roots,’ dies at 87
Louis Gossett Jr., known for his roles in movies “Roots” and “An Officer and a Gentleman,” has passed away.
Read More‘There are children here who do not want to be black’: one woman’s bid to save Mexico’s first Afro-Mexican museum
A museum dedicated to Afro-Mexican history faces closure if the single unpaid volunteer cannot find someone to follow in her footsteps.
Read MoreBeyoncé Just Covered the Beatles In the Most Authentic Way: By Honoring Black History
Beyonce’s new album has surprised and enthralled fans while paying homage to this country’s undeniable black history.
Read MoreLDF Seeks Preliminary Injunction in Lawsuit Challenging Racial Discrimination in Newbern, Alabama’s Electoral Practices
Legal Defense Fund has launched a lawsuit several years in the making against an Alabama town that suppresses the vote of Black residents.
Read MoreRecruitment of nurses from global south branded ‘new form of colonialism’
A shortage of nursing professionals had lead to “poaching of staff” from places where health infrastructure is already precarious.
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