Renewables surpass coal in US energy generation for first time in 130 years
Solar, wind, and other renewable sources have toppled coal in energy generation in the United States for the first time in over 130 years, with the coronavirus pandemic accelerating a decline...
NBA Players Union Head Joins Marijuana Company As League Reportedly Suspends Drug Testing
The head of the NBA’s players union is joining the board of a major marijuana company at the same time reports are surfacing that players will not be tested for cannabis...
Virginia’s Marijuana Decriminalization: What It Means And How It Works
It’s not the same thing as legalization, but Democrats say it’s a step on the way.
Marijuana has been an issue for Virginia’s General Assembly for decades, going back as far as...
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
The First Juneteenth
“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of...
What Is Juneteenth?
Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom: Marijuana Legalization Is A ‘Civil Rights’ Issue
California Governor Gavin Newsom discussed during a press conference last week how the state plans to fix issues of systemic injustice and racism following widespread protests of police brutality. Newsom referenced...
Food waste increases during the pandemic — compounding an existing problem
Long before COVID-19 disruptions forced dairy farmers to dump millions of gallons of milk into fields and farmers to plow under fields of vegetables, a third of all food produced globally was going...
Racist monuments fall: Watery end for slave trader statue in UK
LONDON (AP)—The toppling of a statue of a notorious slave trader in Bristol, a city in the southwest of England, on Sunday by anti-racism protesters was greeted with joyous scenes.
Demonstrators attached...
Louisiana’s Angola: Proving ground for racialized capitalism
When the U.S. Civil War ended, Edward A. Pollard “of Virginia” immediately wrote a history of Confederate military operations—The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates—where...
Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Wendy’s franchisee gives $200K more to Trump reelection campaign
Wendy's is facing backlash online after Business Insider reported that a franchisee on President Donald Trump's restaurant-recovery roundtable donated more than $400,000 to reelect the president.
In mid-May, the White House announced that Muy Cos. CEO...