SAN BERNADINO, Calif. – Around 11 a.m. Cyrilene begins organizing the kitchen at the Highland Senior Center, as...
Nov 19, 2021
Atlanta’s urban farms make a stand against food redlining
ATLANTA – In the heart of Atlanta, 61-year-old Wayne Ricketts spends his days rooting up weeds, harvesting the...
Nov 19, 2021
The pandemic pushes more Black Americans to take up urban farming to fight ‘food apartheid’
Before coronavirus shutdowns gave Mike Daniels an unexpected furlough, he hadn’t thought much about urban gardening, though he’d...
Nov 19, 2021
St. Louis community gardens, food pantries head off COVID-19 food catastrophe
ST. LOUIS, Mo. —On a crisp late summer morning, 65-year-old Army veteran Nancy Vonner walked the five blocks...
Nov 19, 2021
Life after hate
In January of 2018, DaShawn Horne was the victim of a brutal, racially-motivated, unprovoked hate crime. After meeting...
Sep 13, 2019
Stacey Abrams sets the stage for a fight for voters’ rights
ATLANTA — Former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams testified about systemic voting problems at a House subcommittee hearing this...
Feb 22, 2019
What it means
Those on the outside looking in will never fully understand what it means to be a black man...
Feb 01, 2019
The fight for better pay in D.C.
WASHINGTON –– Venorica Tucker has worked in the service industry since she was around 12 years old, when...
Jul 13, 2018
Covering the West Virginia teacher strike — and coming home
CHARLESTON, West Virginia — The sea of striking teachers gathered in the Capitol here was dotted with red...
Apr 27, 2018
