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- Malika N. Pryor gives a tour in preparation for the opening of the International African American Museum on Friday, June 23, 2023, in Charleston, S.C. Overlooking the old wharf at which nearly half of the enslaved population first entered North America, the 150,000-square foot museum houses exhibits and artifacts exploring how African Americans' labor, perseverance, resistance and cultures shaped the Carolinas, the nation and the world. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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At International African American Museum opening, a reclaiming of sacred ground for enslaved kin
By AARON MORRISON - AP National Writer
Sun,06/25/23-8:34AM , 214 Reads
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — When the International African American Museum opens to the public Tuesday in South Carolina, it becomes a new site of homecoming and pilgrimage for descendants of enslaved Africans whose arrival in the Western Hemisphere begins on the docks of the lowcountry coast.
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- Tirzah Patterson and her son Jaques "Jake" Patterson pose for a picture at their home, Tuesday, May. 9, 2023, in Buffalo, N.Y. Jake, 13, is the youngest child of beloved church deacon Heyward Patterson, who was gunned down at a supermarket a year ago, Sunday. Tirzah will dedicate this Mother’s Day to the hardest part of a mother’s job, trying to help her child make sense of tragedy. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
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For Buffalo shooting victims' kin, Mother's Day is a reminder of loss, a lesson in navigating grief
By AARON MORRISON - AP National Writer
Fri,05/12/23-12:06AM , 194 Reads
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Tirzah Patterson will dedicate this Mother’s Day to the hardest part of a mother’s job, trying to help her child make sense of tragedy.
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- Joseph Sena, 27, reads a document in his cell at Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, Calif., Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. Sena spent years trying to make himself a better person after spending nearly half of his 27 years in prison for killing a man. He took courses in poetry and mental health and other topics at a central California prison, hoping to be seen as fit for parole and ready to live outside prison if the day he was free ever came. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Rehab on hold: COVID devastated prison learning programs
By AARON MORRISON - AP National Writer
Thu,03/02/23-9:21AM , 535 Reads
CHOWCHILLA, California (AP) — Joseph Sena has spent nearly half his 27 years in prison for manslaughter. For almost as long, he’s been striving to make himself a better man than when he first arrived.
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- At the onset of the pandemic, many prisons across the US suspended in-person visitation, disrupting rehabilitative programs. While things are almost back to normal, some prisoners wonder if the lost time will impact their fitness for parole. (March 2) (AP video/Noreen Nasir and Aaron Morrison)
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Rehab on hold: COVID devastated prison learning programs
By AARON MORRISON - AP National Writer
Thu,03/02/23-9:20AM , 195 Reads
CHOWCHILLA, California (AP) — Joseph Sena has spent nearly half his 27 years in prison for manslaughter. For almost as long, he’s been striving to make himself a better man than when he first arrived.
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