by Starlette Thomas | Jun 30, 2025 | Opinion
Brain-dead after suffering a fatal stroke and in the early weeks of her pregnancy, the doctors at Emory University Hospital finally turned off the machines after the emergency C-section delivery of her son, Chance, who weighed less than two pounds. Adriana Smith was...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 16, 2025 | Opinion
The images captured in 1850 are believed to be the earliest known pictures of Africans who were enslaved during American chattel slavery. The plate daguerreotypes, an early type of photo, are of Renty Taylor and his daughter, Delia. Both are posed and photographed...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 9, 2025 | Opinion
They kept their skulls. In the 1870s, nineteen African Americans who had been patients at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana and later died of various causes, were decapitated. Their crania were then sent to Leipzig, Germany, where they were studied under the...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 2, 2025 | Opinion
On May 15, 2025, the South’s largest surviving antebellum house burned to the ground, sparking debate over the legacy of American chattel slavery. Only a smoldering façade remained, inspiring celebration and memes shared on social media by people glad to see the...
by Starlette Thomas | May 27, 2025 | Opinion
I never met him, but George Perry Floyd Jr. changed my life and the way I practice my faith. Like millions of people across the world, I said his name during the summer of 2020. But what echoed back to me was what it means to be human, and I’ve never heard it again so...
