Adria R Walker
Race and Equity Reporter at The Guardian
race & equity reporter @guardianus | mississippian | infrequent tweeter 🍄
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theguardian.com | Adria R Walker
This 25 May marks the fifth anniversary of the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, whose murder sparked international protests against police brutality and racism. A new study by the Pew Institute examines the beliefs of American adults regarding race and racial issues five years after Floyd’s death.
‘Food is medicine’: Mississippi grocery store revitalizes its majority-Black town with fresh produce
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theguardian.com | Adria R Walker
With the recent release of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, Clarksdale, Mississippi, known as the home of the blues, has been thrust into the spotlight. But while the nation and world are captivated with a version of Clarksdale from over 90 years ago, residents today are focused on the future.
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theguardian.com | Adria R Walker
Receiving her inchunwa was not something Faithlyn Taloa Seawright did lightly, but when the moment “just felt right”, she knew it was time. Seawright, who was the 2024 Miss Indian Oklahoma and a previous Chickasaw Princess, had long studied the tradition that she inherited from her ancestors. In Choctaw and Chickasaw languages, inchunwa means “to be marked, branded or tattooed”. So receiving inchunwa, or traditional Indigenous tattoos, is something that must be done with reverence, Seawright said.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Adria R Walker
Between the late 18th century and the end of the American civil war, tens of thousands of Black Americans escaped the bondage of slavery by fleeing plantations to go north. The Underground Railroad had stops in states in which slavery was illegal, such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York. But for an estimated 30,000 people, the journey continued beyond those states into Canada.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Adria R Walker
Twenty years ago this August, the United States Gulf coast was irrevocably changed when Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest and costliest storms to ever hit the country, made landfall. Making landfall as a strong category 3, the storm, which was so vast it stretched the length of the Mississippi Gulf coast all the way into Alabama, hit the Mississippi-Louisiana coastal border before continuing northward.
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