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Sputnik Monroe was a self-serving wrestler in Tennessee. He also advanced civil rights
Gannett via AOL· 10 hours agoPeople of a certain age who grew up in Memphis know all too well about Sputnik Monroe, the professional wrestler who used the power of celebrity and popular culture to move the racial equality ...
A Fast-Growing Coffee Chain Is Creating Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Food & Wine via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoBitty & Beau’s is a civil rights movement disguised as a coffee shop. MATT RAY PHOTOGRAPHY Bitty &...
‘Road to Rickwood’: Church Pews and Bleachers
Birmingham News· 8 hours agoRoy Wood Jr., the host of the series, continues to speak with surviving players from the Birmingham Black Barons about the soaring highs and painful lows...
Review: ‘Stokely’ at Court Theatre is an unfinished story of a uncompromising radical
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe activist Stokely Carmichael played a major role in both the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement, something that could not said about either Martin Luther King Jr., or Malcolm ...
‘Black Barbie’ Trailer: Shonda Rhimes Executive Produces the Mattel Origin Story of Diverse Dolls
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoGreta Gerwig didn’t call Margot Robbie’s “Barbie” character Stereotypical Barbie for nothing. The...
Sewanee students protest for Palestine, seek continued action from school
Tennessee Lookout via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoAmong the recent protests on Tennessee college campuses by students calling for divestment from...
Saturday event with Emmett Till's family to focus on addressing racism
The Buffalo News· 5 days agoAn event in Buffalo will focus on the ongoing fight against racism and white supremacy more than...
‘Your rights were violated’: BLM protesters sue Fort Lauderdale cops over brutal crackdown
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoThe lawsuit, attorney Michael Davis said, seeks justice for the protesters who witnessed a brutal...
Essay on "How Constitutional Litigation Can Help End Exclusionary Zoning
Reason.com· 2 hours agoAs Bryan and other scholars have documented, eliminating exclusionary zoning and other similar...
‘Man of the People’ celebrates the larger-than-life story of Paul Robeson
Chicago Tribune· 11 hours ago“Paul Robeson is an under-appreciated giant of the 20th century,” says Lasana Kazembe, assistant...