The entrepreneurial efforts of Black business men fueled Durham North Carolina’s Black Wall Street -- creating lasting institutions for excellence despite the threat to decimate Black communities with plans of urban renewal, highway construction and segregation. The Black business community worked to ensure that opportunity in Durham remained available for [...]
Don't mess with Texas abortion funds. Abortion funds in the South have always been the ones minding the gap between pregnant people and their federally mandated right to an abortion. A state ban, even the first of its kind, won’t stop them, they say. Case in point: With Texas banning [...]
Attorney McKenna Raney-Gray will lead the brand-new LGBTQ Justice Project, a free legal clinic at the ACLU of Mississippi that will offer services to LGBTQ-identifying people on issues including family law, civil rights and employment discrimination. Raney-Gray shared with Reckon what she’s currently reading, watching and listening to on LGBTQ issues and culture. [...]
Before the late 1980s, most academics cited the start of the Civil Rights Movement as Rosa Parks’ refusal to vacate her bus seat on Dec. 1, 1955. But 95 days earlier, the death of a 14-year-old boy named Emmett Till was about to shake the movement to life. Clenora Hudson-Weems, who [...]
The daily reminders of Africatown’s complex history can be seen several times a day, as trains slowly roll past the dilapidated homes, empty, overgrown lots and pockmarked streets that were once bustling with life and industry. Those same trains have been the lifeblood of Gulf Coast communities for almost two [...]
When there is an emergency or something seems out of control, most people call 911. Dispatchers usually send police officers to respond — even when their presence is unnecessary and a response beyond traditional policing tactics could be more helpful. In North Carolina, the data shows that most crime is [...]
Reckon and AL.com will produce a documentary about the criminalization of poverty thanks to a grant from the Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights at the Columbia Journalism School. The grant amounts to $35,000, which will support AL.com investigative reporter Connor Sheets in pursuing major [...]
As DaBaby's recent use of homophobic and stigmatizing HIV language at a Miami music festival continues to draw fire, 11 national LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS organizations sent the North Carolina-based rapper an open letter requesting a private conversation about education, harm and advocacy. “We heard your inaccurate and harmful comments at [...]
Young Black, Latinx, and queer people in Appalachia don’t have what they need to live a safe and sustainable life in their regions. Groups like The STAY Together Youth Appalachian Project, a diverse youth coalition in Central Appalachia, are providing young people in Appalachia an opportunity to challenge systems of [...]
Over the last few months, you’ve probably read about the latest political brawl in the never ending culture wars: Critical Race Theory. It’s a complicated concept that largely explores how race and racism is experienced in the U.S. and how it intertwines with the functions of society. One of the [...]
