A Mississippi grand jury declined to indict anyone in Nolan Wells’ death after 132 subpoenas and 43 witnesses, but his family says the ruling doesn’t answer what actually happened to their son. Contributing writer Joseph Williams has the latest.
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A Metro car photo became a portrait of Trump’s America
A Reuters photo of a Black woman surrounded by masked Patriot Front members on the D.C. Metro became the defining image of America’s 250th birthday. In an op-ed, Joseph Williams traces the moment back through a century of organized white intimidation.
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Obama still lives rent-free in Trump’s head
As Trump defends a thin Iran agreement, Obama opened his presidential center in Chicago surrounded by cultural icons and former presidents. In an op-ed for Word in Black, Joseph Williams argues the contrast says everything about legacy and grievance.
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Trump’s message to abusive cops: ‘We’ve got your back’
Despite federal rollbacks, police accountability isn’t dead. Experts say the real work is happening in local courts and communities—far from Washington.
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10 years after Ferguson, do Black lives still matter?
The Ferguson protests of 2014 sparked a national conversation on systemic racism and police violence, resulting in reforms in the Ferguson police department and the election of the city’s first Black mayor.