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Category: Racial Justice
Investigations and analysis on racial inequity in policing, courts, housing, health care and employment.
Black News May 31, 2026A Woman Named Cherrie Moore: Shelby, NC, a Viral Video, and the Structural Emergency Behind the Frame
Shelby, North Carolina is a mill town turned small city in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, the kind of place most national political journalists fly over…
Economics May 29, 2026Follow the Money: How Anti-Blackness and Project 2025 Are Being Monetized — and Who Is Cashing In
A $1.6 billion donation. A 700% profit surge at a private prison company. $44 million flowing to an anti-civil rights law firm in a single year.
Black News May 26, 2026Gwendolyn White and the Weight of Denied Justice: A Raleigh Courthouse Shooting in Historical Context
Gwendolyn White, 57, is charged with attempted murder after shooting two attorneys outside the Wake County Courthouse — the culmination of a five-year…