Venice’s Black community gathered at Oakwood Park last week for an event with all the trappings of a typical Juneteenth celebration; soul music, crisp outfits, fried chicken, cornbread and a bounce house for the kids. Some residents said the holiday marks the day Black people first settled in the Oakwood area of Venice, an occasion that was first celebrated more …
— A Mississippi city failed to properly inform property owners in a majority-Black neighborhood that their homes could be targeted for eminent domain under a redevelopment plan, some residents argue in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Southern District of Mississippi, said the coastal city of Ocean Springs created an “urban renewal” proposal in an …
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It’s no secret that “The Bachelor” franchise, the gold standard for reality dating TV shows, has a big race problem. You’re gonna be one on there!’ And then I get there and then there’s like five of us or seven of us.” Robyn Jedkins, season 17 of “The Bachelor”: “Honestly my thought process was I would go for a day, …
