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Did American Airlines Pull a Rosa Parks Racist Move With a Black Woman??
The Root· 3 days agoThis is why a retired Black judge is claiming racial discrimination after she was essentially...
Poet and author Nikki Giovanni to speak in Omaha at Girls Inc. fundraiser
Omaha World-Herald· 4 days agoGiovanni, a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, won the coveted Caldecott Medal for “Rosa,” an...
‘Use the Restroom in the Back of the Plane': Retired Black Judge Seated In First Class Claims...
Atlanta Black Star· 5 days agoA retired Black circuit court judge from Chicago is suing American Airlines for racial discrimination, claiming a male flight attendant told her to “use the restroom in the ...
Battle over renaming Concord Middle School heads to a community-wide vote
GBH News· 5 days agoIt would be the first building named for a Black person in the majority-white town, but the school...
Medal of Honor recipient Col. Ralph Puckett lies in honor in Capitol rotunda
ABC News· 5 days agoRalph Puckett Jr., Colonel, United States Army, Retired. Medal of Honor recipient Puckett's cremated...
Chicago Opera Theater Announces Two Premieres and More for 2024-25 Season
Broadway World· 4 days agoChicago Opera Theater has announced its 2024/25 Season, the first programmed by Edlis Neeson General...
Why You Need to Spend Juneteenth in the Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement
Thrillist Food & Drink· 3 days agoAs the site of some of the most significant moments of the Civil Rights Movement, you’d be remiss...
“Where Did We Sit on the Bus?” puts the audience in the Loop at the Denver Center | Theater review
Denver Post· 2 days ago“Where Did We Sit on the Bus?” takes its title from the question a 9-year-old Bee asks her elementary school teacher during lessons on Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement. Defying the reigning ...
Many universities calling in police today also celebrate campus protests of the past
Mother Jones· 3 days agoColumbia students often hear about the history of dissent on campus. The university explains the...
J.Z. George’s descendant advocates for removing the statue of the Confederate icon from the nation’s...
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 6 days agoThe great-great-great grandson of Confederate icon J.Z. George wants to see his ancestor’s statue moved from the U.S. Capitol back to Mississippi. Each day, hundreds visit the Capitol’s Statuary ...