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In Lexington, a town where about 1 in 6 people are White, 99 percent of those arrested are Black, according to jail logs ...
LANSING, Iowa – Lansing Hardware Hank sits less than half a mile from the Black Hawk Bridge, which stretches across the Mississippi River connecting southwest Wisconsin with northeast Iowa. It's ...
The iconic Black Hawk Bridge that connects Lansing, Iowa to Crawford County, Wisconsin over the Mississippi River closed May 17 due to safety issues. It's not the first time the bridge has closed ...
Especially in the Trump era, people often think of the US in terms of black and white, either demonizing or idealizing it.
In a society as stacked against Black citizens as 1932 small-town Mississippi is, it’s easy to imagine a history for the Smokestack twins where they left for Chicago and joined the Mob not just ...
In this bonus episode, Nina shares her personal quest to find LGBTQ representation and belonging as a Black lesbian in the American South. She speaks to two Black Southern lesbians who share their ...
For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes - Flooding has pushed people out of their homes near the Mississippi River at a roughly 30% higher rate than the U.S. as a ...
To resurrect civil rights era cold cases, two reporters uncovered new sources and accessed forgotten government documents to ...
Carmel Mission, founded in 1771, stands as one of California’s most authentic and beautiful Spanish missions. The entire town ...
Even 17 years after the death of her spouse, renowned bluesman D.C. Minner, she kept the music playing in the McIntosh County hamlet, one of Oklahoma’s historically Black towns.
Even 17 years after the death of her spouse, renowned bluesman D.C. Minner, she kept the music playing in the McIntosh County hamlet, one of Oklahoma’s historically Black towns.