The Voice of Ida B Wells
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The handwriting is already etched upon the wall for all who dare to read it. The same council now recommends as mayor pro tempore the very man who approved the release of $25,000—an act carried out, we are told, without the mayor’s knowledge. Such a claim insults both reason and intelligence. Logic alone testifies otherwise.…
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For months I have held my silence, not because the wrongs were unclear, but because I sought to understand how injustice can parade so boldly while those sworn to serve pretend not to see it. I have watched as citizens are disregarded and dismissed, while the Black community—ever familiar with injustice—recognizes it immediately, for it…
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You would have to be willfully blind to believe that the recent changes made in this town were for the betterment of its people. What we are witnessing is not leadership—it is domination disguised as development. Power has been traded for control, and the people are paying the price. Since when did gathering on your…
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I watched the council meeting—still no mention of that $25,000. It remains tabled, tucked away like so many truths this city refuses to face. Officers are dismissed, yet the one with the red-orange hair, the very same who signed the check, stands untouched and unbothered, her unprofessionalism cloaked in protection. When the wrongdoer wears privilege, silence…
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Well, well, well… if you are not registered to vote, the time is now. No excuses, no delays. Because what we are witnessing in City Hall today is not simply politics — it is a clear reflection of how power chooses to serve itself while disregarding the people who made that power possible. A $25…
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There is a dangerous wind sweeping through this nation—an old wind wearing new clothes. We now see men and women in power working to erase the truth from our children’s minds, stripping slavery and its horrors from the lessons of our schools. But slavery is not a footnote—it is the foundation upon which this country…
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Once again, the tragedy falls upon us: a young man, innocent of the charges, accused of being guilty with lies and prejudice. Kyren Lacy knew he had done no wrong, yet his truth was drowned beneath the weight of false statements. No advocate rose to his defense. No justice dared to speak his name. He was…
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This mayor has written his name into the record of Minden not by deeds of justice, but by the shameful continuation of practices we thought buried long ago. In a time when racism and discrimination should have no soil left to grow in, he has proven that they yet live—cloaked not in secrecy, but in…
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Hmmm. The echoes of July 2022 councilwoman will help pay the citizens’ light bills? For three years she has held office, and in those three years has she paid one? For three years she has sat in silence — not a word raised in council, not a defense made for her people. And yet we…
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I once said, “I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching, and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.” That truth remains. For the pain of our people speaks plainly — written in tears,…
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