AT&T did not exist during slavery — the company began in 1877 — but it was born into Reconstruction’s collapse and built its first workforce inside a country actively re-legalizing racial exclusion. Part 1 of a 12-part series, with primary documents from the Library of Congress and AT&T’s own archive.
The White House Correspondents Association called the press-pool exclusion of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico a “ban on the free press.” A federal judge already ruled on a nearly identical case in 2025 — and history offers a clear pattern for what to watch next.
A 25-year-old Deer River man is jailed on $100,000 bail after allegedly stabbing a stranger with a broken beer bottle in a downtown Duluth bar bathroom.
A federal judge Friday denied a voting rights group’s request to block part of South Dakota’s new proof-of-citizenship voting system after the state changed its voter notices and gave the group much of what it had asked for.
Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) of 2026 legislative package into law.
Today’s Universal Day Number is 3 — reduced the same transparent way every day’s number is. Here’s the full calculation, the Kemetic craftsman-creator god behind it, the African-American literary tradition of signifyin(g) it echoes, and an honest look at what peer-reviewed psychology says about why numerology feels true.
Iran says it struck an oil tanker trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz, while hundreds of thousands of people rallied in Tehran in the largest show of support for the government since the United States and Israel launched attacks in February.
This week, a huge coalition showed up in Washington to demand real limits on artificial intelligence. Here’s the part that matters most: not one of the seven members of Congress who spoke belonged to the Congressional Black Caucus.