African american community articles
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The Black Tax: why have African Americans been cheated by the system for so long?
In a new book, historian Andrew W Kahrl looks at the many systemic ways that prejudicial and harmful practices have affected financial stabilityProperty value assessment may not sound like the most thrilling of topics, but according to historian Andrew W Kahrl’s new book The Black Tax, it represents a hugely important piece of structural inequality in the US, one that implicates a wide range of topics, including the process of gentrification, the quality of public schools and other amenities,...
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Call of the conch: Archaeologists suggest Indigenous Americans used sound to organize local communities
Archaeologists have modeled the auditory range of conch-shell trumpets in the 9th–11th century US Southwest, proposing that the sound was key in the structuring of pre-Columbian Pueblo communities.
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Joe Biden's DHS Keeps Detention Space Unfilled as Criminal Illegal Aliens End Up in American Communities
President Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to keep detention space unfilled as several recent cases reveal that criminal illegal aliens were released into American communities after crossing the United States-Mexico border.