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Civil rights group challenge jail's room and board fees
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier· 1 hour agoCivil rights groups today filed a federal class action lawsuit to block the Black Hawk County...
Once again: Police cruelly killed someone Black under the guise of their self-governing authority
Florida Phoenix via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoThat anger is never far from the surface […] The post Once again: Police cruelly killed someone ...
Fact Check: About the Claim Biden Was Arrested as a Kid While Standing on Porch with Black Family...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAn account managed by the Republican National Committee, RNC Research, wrote, "Biden claims he 'got...
NAACP, Other Civil Rights Orgs Call For Biden To Pardon Marilyn Mosby
Blavity via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoThe NAACP is one of over a dozen civil rights organizations urging President Joe Biden to pardon...
Her goal is to defy the notion that Black people don’t swim
NBC Universal via AOL· 28 minutes agoAnika Dwyer, who is a civil engineer by day and a swim instructor by night several times a week,...
The Black Panthers, Joe Ellwanger, and the founding of the Hunger Task Force
Gannett via AOL· 10 hours agoJoe Ellwanger, a former pastor of a predominantly Black church in Birmingham, Alabama, and a leader...
Opal Lee, 'Grandmother of Juneteenth,' receives honorary degree from SMU
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoGen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, with 2,000 Union troops to proclaim that more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state were free. Though some local ...
Malcolm X's Inkster home receives award for historic preservation - WDET 101.9 FM
WDET-FM Detroit· 15 minutes agoWayne State University's Department of Anthropology has been working to restore the once-home of the civil rights leader in Inkster since 2021.
Linda Martell Broke Country Music’s Color Line—Her Granddaughter is Ensuring the Genre Always...
EBONY· 5 hours agoLinda Martell, a pioneering figure in country music, made history as the first Black woman to...
Marisa Abela Wears Some of Amy Winehouse’s Actual Clothes in “Back to Black”
Harper's Bazaar via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoWe both wanted to do Amy justice. So this wasn’t about Marisa as an actor or Sam as the...remember...