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The struggle for Black voting rights has shifted from gaining access to ensuring participation. This year, organizers are targeting the voters campaigns too often overlook. The post The Fight for the Black Vote Is Already Underway appeared first on Word In Black.

A Massachusetts appeals court ruling is drawing attention to how courts handle severe mental illness in cases where mothers kill their children — and to jury composition, after a racially lopsided jury deadlocked earlier this month in the high-profile murder trial of Lindsay Clancy. In August, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts overturned the 2022 […] The post New Trial Ordered for Latarsha Sanders As Spotlight on Race, Mental Illness Widens in Child Death Cases appeared first on Word In Black.

“I hope you’ll wake up running, because the moment I’m addressing is urgent.” That is what the Rev. Walter Earl Fluker hopes readers carry from “Wake Up Running: Building Democratic Space at the Crossings,” his new meditation on democracy, faith and belonging. LEARN MORE: Can the Black Church Be Reimagined? Harlem First Thinks So Published […] The post Why Walter Fluker Says the Church Must ‘Wake Up Running’ appeared first on Word In Black.

A federal appeals court has handed climate nonprofits a major victory in their fight to preserve $20 billion in clean-energy funding. But communities the program was designed to help still can't count on the money. The post Trump Tried to Kill a $20B Green Fund. A Court Said ‘Not So Fast’ appeared first on Word In Black.

Suzan Johnson Cook spent the day helping stranded New Yorkers before heading to Ground Zero, where firefighters simply asked her to pray. The post New York ‘Became My Parish:’ A Black Chaplain Remembers 9/11 appeared first on Word In Black.