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Matthew Perry was a successful civil rights attorney who became the first African-American from the Deep South appointed to the federal judiciary and the first African American to serve as a U.S. District Court judge in South Carolina. As an attorney he triumphed in several landmark cases. Perry joined law school in 1951. Prior to this, South Carolina did not require students to pass the bar to practice law until Black Americans started graduating from law schools.

"Atlanta" has received widespread critical acclaim, winning multiple Golden Globe and Emmys Awards; however, much of the show's narrative power lies within its refusal to explain its cultural references and hidden jokes. Here are some of the hidden details and cultural references that you might have missed throughout the series.

With the pandemic surging, the emergence of other diseases, and even inflation, many people just want a break from reality. Music is one of the easiest ways to achieve this escape. What has been your favorite album since 2020?

The history of genocide is a long and messy topic that ranges from Carthage’s destruction to the Holocaust to the 100-day Rwandan genocide. Violence at this large scale is still prevalent to this day. So why are these large scale conflicts that occur in “third-world” countries not receiving the same treatment as a conflict like the war in Ukraine? And the answer is already in front of us: because these conflicts aren’t occurring in areas with blue eyed, blonde haired, and white skinned people of Europe. Racism is the primary culprit in determining the source for limited coverage of world events.

Women are more likely to be food insecure than men in every region of the world, according to a 2017 report by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. When women are in a domestic violence scenario where a gun is present they are five times more likely to be killed. According to a study done by Obstetrics & Gynecology, it was found that 64% of women reported ever having difficulty affording menstrual products. But these were and are not the issues at the forefront of the feminist movement. Mainstream feminism often focuses on issues that affect the women already at the top, there they can worry about body hair or career advancement. Womanism + Mujerista Theology allows for a sense of wholeness and restoration that white feminism attempts to disregard and shut out.

Since the 1980s, about one million square kilometers of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana, and French Guiana. Why is Earth's largest rainforest being destroyed? And can it be stopped?

What was once a platform for young people’s voices, is now an amplified channel for chaos. Hip hop music is influencing violent behavior within the black community and arguably thriving off of oppression and oppressive systems. Is hip hop culture to blame for the large amount of deaths within the black community alone?