How “Greens, Beets, and Tomatoes” Turned Around This Historically Black Church
Members of the Pleasant Hope Baptist Church at one of the church’s farmers markets. Black Church Food Security Network Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A few years ago, the Rev. Dr. Heber Brown III, the pastor of Baltimore’s historically African American Pleasant Hope Baptist Church, noticed a problem in his…
The #ChurchToo Movement Just Scored a Major Victory for Victims of Sexual Abuse
Willow Creek Community Church Senior Pastor Bill Hybels stands before his congregation, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, where he announced his early retirement effective immediately, amid a cloud of misconduct allegations.Mark Black/Daily Herald via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this week, in what is the most significant response to…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Not Here for Insulting, Bad-Faith Invites to “Debate”
G. Ronald Lopez/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has had quite a busy summer in the two months since her stunning victory against 10-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in New York’s Democratic primary, stumping for Democratic candidates across the country. Along with her new national profile has come…
Melania Trump’s Parents Just Became Citizens Through a Process Her Husband Wants to Make Illegal
Viktor and Amalija Knavs listen as their attorney makes a statement in New York on Thursday. First lady Melania Trump’s parents have been sworn in as U.S. citizens. Seth Wenig/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump has long demanded an end to “chain migration”—Republicans’ favorite term for the practice…
Opioid Addiction Among Pregnant Women Has Quadrupled
ozgurdonmaz/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Vermont, 1 in every 20 pregnant women is addicted to opioids when she gives birth. That’s one of several striking stats from a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that finds that opioid addiction among new moms across the…
Read Justice Sotomayor’s Powerful Dissent in the Latest Battle Over the Death Penalty
Jay Mallin/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Billy Ray Irick, a 59-year-old Tennessee death row inmate, is scheduled to die Thursday night for the 1985 rape and murder of seven-year-old Paula Dyer. In February, Irick and dozens of other Tennessee death row inmates filed a lawsuit against the state arguing that…