Lowndes County And The Road To Black Power

Internet Video Archive

The passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 represented not the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement, but the beginning of a new, crucial chapter. Nowhere was this next battle better epitomized than in Lowndes County, Alabama, a rural, impoverished town with a vicious history of racist terrorism. In a town that was eighty percent Black but had zero Black voters, laws were just paper without power. This isn’t a story of hope but of action. Through first person accounts and searing archival f

Latest Stories

  • LSU women’s tennis hosts No. 4 Georgia in SEC Friday night match

    The Bulldogs are perfect in SEC play heading into this one.

  • Learning Without Tears Scores Big in 2023 EdTech Awards

    Early learning leader, Learning Without Tears, is now among EdTech's best and brightest, following the announcement of this year's EdTech "Cool Tool" Awards. The company had a particularly strong showing in the 2023 EdTech Awards, where its Phonics, Reading, and Me™ was a finalist in the Literacy/Reading Solution category and the company's Get Set for School® won its category and was named the "Best Early Childhood/Kindergarten-Readiness Solution." Adding to an already-strong showing, Learning W

  • Thinking Of Buying Essential Properties? Here Are The Properties And Tenants You'd Add To Your Portfolio

    Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been wonderful investments over the years, despite recent difficulties resulting from inflation and interest-rate hikes. But it’s important to consider the properties, tenants and contractual agreements that comprise the largest percentage of a REIT’s business. Take a look at one REIT whose single-property tenant base is well diversified and whose performance has been superior to most REITs this year. Essential Properties Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE: EPRT)

  • Fed's Williams says financial conditions key to rate policy outlook

    Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said Friday uncertain developments with financial conditions will be a key contributor to his thinking about what’s next for central bank interest rate policy. “The economic outlook is uncertain, and our policy decisions will be driven by the data and the achievement of our maximum employment and price stability mandates,” Williams said in the text of a speech. “I am confident that our actions will bring inflation down to our 2% longer-run goal,” the official said.

  • Justice Department Appeals Decision Striking Down ACA Preventive Care Rules

    A day earlier, a conservative judge issued a decision that would remove a wide range of preventive services from Obamacare’s coverage mandate.

  • QuoteMedia Announces 16% Revenue Growth for 2022

    PHOENIX, March 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QuoteMedia, Inc. (OTCQB: QMCI), a leading provider of market data and financial applications, announced financial results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022. QuoteMedia provides banks, brokerage firms, private equity firms, financial planners and sophisticated investors with a more economical, higher quality alternative source of stock market data and related research information. We compete with several larger legacy organizations and a modes

  • Why Tesla Is Ending the Week on a High Note

    Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) shares are moving higher to end the week, hitting their highest level in a month. The move comes with news of potential plans for a new battery factory, and as investors look forward to the electric vehicle (EV) leader's first-quarter delivery report. Tesla typically reports quarterly production and delivery data on the second day of a new quarter.

  • Theater group sues to block Tennessee's new anti-drag law

    An LGBTQ+ theater company is suing to try to block Tennessee's first-in-the-nation law that placed strict limits on drag shows, saying it violates the First Amendment. The Memphis-based group, Friends of George's, filed the federal lawsuit Monday against Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy and the state, and asked the court to issue a preliminary injunction preventing the law from taking effect Saturday. “This law threatens to force a theatre troupe into a nightclub, because Tennessee legislators believe they have the right to make their own opinions about drag into law,” the theater group argues in its complaint.

  • Canada approves largest telecom deal in country's history

    The largest telecommunications deal in Canadian history will go forward after Rogers Communications Inc.‘s $26-billion Canadian (US$19 billion) takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. received approval from Ottawa on Friday. Canada has among the most expensive cellular rates in the world. Champagne approved the transfer of Shaw-owned Freedom Mobile’s wireless licenses to Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron, which operates in Quebec and some border regions of Ontario.

  • Biden’s $42.5 Billion Broadband-Expansion Plan Is Challenged by Lawmakers

    WASHINGTON–The Biden administration’s $42.5 billion program to expand broadband could hit a speed bump, as some U.S. lawmakers push legislation to ensure rural states aren’t shortchanged. A bipartisan pair of senators Friday announced a bill that would require the Biden administration to perform an additional review before deciding how much funding each state will receive under the program, which is the federal government’s largest-ever one-time allocation to build out broadband to Americans who don’t have it. Jacky Rosen (D., Nev.) and John Thune (R., S.D.) say that as the law stands, federal officials might not have time to ensure the funding is distributed based on accurate maps of which homes and businesses lack broadband access.

  • Multi Image Group Proudly Announces New ESOP Making the Company 100 Percent Employee Owned

    The Sclafani Family, owners of Multi Image Group (MIG), proudly informed employees that the company formed an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), and, in doing so, has joined the growing list of successful companies whose employees are stakeholders. The announcement was made at MIG's headquarters in Boca Raton, FL, at an internal company meeting.

  • Former Trump Organization exec Allen Weisselberg cuts ties with attorneys

    The move comes as a Manhattan grand jury is believed to be nearing a decision on whether to charge Trump in a long-running hush money investigation.

  • Erling Haaland's Nike deal illustrates Man City man has become an iconic talent

    Erling Haaland has signed a deal with Nike to be his boot manufacturer for the rest of his career.

  • Futu Holdings Stock Shows Market Leadership With Jump To 86 RS Rating

    Futu Holdings stock just met that criteria with a new score of 86. When looking for the best stocks to buy and watch, one factor to watch closely is relative price strength. IBD's proprietary RS Rating tracks technical performance by using a 1 (worst) to 99 (best) score that identifies how a stock's price performance over the last 52 weeks matches up against the rest of the market.

  • How Disney Dodged Ron DeSantis and Kept Control of Its Florida Land

    Walt Disney has for now outmaneuvered Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the battle for control over the more than 24,000-acre parcel near Orlando where Walt Disney World Resort is located.

  • Binance Canada Files Pre-Registration Undertaking to Canadian Regulators

    Binance Canada Capital Markets Inc. (Binance Canada), the Canadian affiliate of Binance, announced today that it has filed a Pre-Registration Undertaking (PRU) with its principal regulator, the Alberta Securities Commission, as well as with the other members of the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA). The PRU was submitted on behalf of Binance Canada, Binance Holdings Limited (Binance) and Canadian entrepreneur Changpeng Zhao (CZ).

  • Romania: Andrew Tate to leave jail, put under house arrest

    An official says Andrew Tate, the divisive internet personality who has spent months in a Romanian jail on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, has won an appeal to replace his detention with house arrest. The Bucharest Court of Appeal ruled in favor of Tate’s appeal, which challenged a judge’s decision last week to extend his arrest a fourth time for 30 days, Ramona Bolla, a spokesperson for Romania’s anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, said Friday. Tate, 36, a British-U.S. citizen who has 5.4 million Twitter followers, was initially detained in late December in Romania’s capital Bucharest, along with his brother Tristan and two Romanian women.

  • Charges against police union exec hurts trust of SJPD: Former auditor

    "She's a civilian. But she was somebody working directly - maybe she felt she was even safer doing this because she maybe would not be scrutinized by them," former San Jose independent police auditor LaDoris Cordell said.

  • 10 Freeway closed in City Terrace after fatal police shooting

    A shooting involving Monterey Park police led to closure of both sides of the 10 Freeway in City Terrace.

  • Netflix: Every movie leaving your watchlist in April 2023

    They’ll be taken down without warning