Adria R Walker
Race and Equity Reporter at The Guardian
race & equity reporter @guardianus | mississippian | infrequent tweeter 🍄
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4 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Adria R Walker
In the late 1800s, 19 Black New Orleanians’ heads were dismembered and shipped to Leipzig University in Germany for research. The 19 had died at New Orleans’ charity hospital between 1871 and 1872, and the research, which was commonplace at the time, sought to confirm and explore the now widely debunked theory that Black people’s brains were smaller than those of other races. In the 1880s, Dr Henry D Schmidt, a New Orleans physician, sent the skulls to Dr Emil Ludwig Schmidt.
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4 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Adria R Walker
In April, the director Ryan Coogler released Sinners, a thriller about two brothers in the 1930s who return home to Clarksdale, Mississippi, to open a juke joint. Less than a month after the film was released, Sinners made over $200m in the US and Canada, something no original film has done in almost a decade. But residents in Clarksdale, a town with about 14,000 people, the majority of whom are Black, had no way to see themselves on screen in their community.
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1 month ago |
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
1 month ago |
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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1 month ago |
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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RT @srl: Great reporting by @adriawalkr on an Alabama town refusing to recognize an elected Black mayor https://t.co/E99QkGH36L
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