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Source: Daenin Arnee / Getty One of the downsides of social media, which effectively gives everyone a platform, is that anyone can say anything without regard for the truth. Black communities are aggressively targeted by online disinformation, particularly when it comes to politics and health care. Onyx Impact has launched
✕ One of the most enduring stereotypes of Black people is that we’re inherently criminal – a perception that has ruined the lives of so many young Black men. This week’s Decoded breaks down why the stereotype exists, who perpetuates it, and the real-world consequences it’s had for Black people.
Source: SAMUEL CORUM / Getty Another day, another southern state announcing its desire to bring back the days of Jim Crow. On Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp called a special legislative session to draw a new congressional map. CBS News reports that Kemp signaled he would trigger a redistricting effort
Source: Handout / Getty Under the current administration, it appears that white supremacists are getting bored. Even with their hate and racial resentment being validated by the president of the United States regularly, their bigoted angst makes it impossible for them to sit still with it, so they unleash it
Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty President Donald Trump has, for almost as long as he’s been in office in the last decade, done a shallow, self-serving job of pandering to Black people by pretending he’s been our benefactor, when, actually, he has worked against our collective betterment at every turn.
Source: Megan Varner / Getty Gov. Brian Kemp has signed legislation known as House Bill 369 that will make most local elections in five metro Atlanta counties nonpartisan, meaning candidates will run without party affiliation or designation, according to reports from WSB-TV, theGrio, and CBS News. But what is House
Source: peshkov / Getty When does the federal government protect us, and when does it get in the way? Whatever the right balance is, the Trump administration and its yes-men in Congress and on the Supreme Court are doing the exact opposite. The proposal they are pushing on AI proves
Source: Win McNamee / Getty FBI Director Kash Patel has apparently not learned much from now-former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who seemed to think throwing a tantrum, being performatively belligerent and crashing out before Congress would save her job, which it did not. During a budget hearing on Tuesday,
Source: Leonid Andronov / Getty Over the last week, several Republican led state legislatures throughout the South have shown that they believe the “fair” part of free and fair elections to be entirely optional. While redistricting efforts to disenfranchise Black voters are currently underway in Alabama, Tennessee, and Louisiana, South
Source: Douglas Rissing / Getty The Heritage Foundation, the conservative anti-think tank that brought us Project 2025, quietly released Project 2026, its policy priorities for this year, which, for the most part, seem to be remixes of its priorities from last year. Also, the foundation isn’t actually calling it “Project 2026”