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Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 2 days agoPolice stops led to hundreds of killings of unarmed people in the past few years, a disproportionate number of them Black. A study conducted in New Orleans ...
'The Big Cigar' finale shows how Huey P. Newton realized Hollywood's revolutionary potential
Los Angeles Times· 5 days agoThe very essence of “The Big Cigar” is frenetic. The Apple TV+ limited series, a slice-of-life...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 1 day agoAt this point, I really only have one question for police officers across the nation: Why are you like this? A Black man who also happens to be an Army ...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 2 days agoJune 1640: Virginia’s General Court created what many are calling the...s first slave when the court condemned John Punch, an African, to a life sentence of servitude because he was
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 2 days agoThe Associated Press reports that on Thursday, members of the California State Board of Education unanimously approved the curriculum with hopes that it...
Americans today are divided, not united, by public tragedies
United Press International via Yahoo News· 5 days agos murder was quickly blamed on "policing," gaining enormous public sympathy and notoriety -- and,...
The legacy of a last name: A new memorial park honors the last names of the formerly enslaved
CBS 58 Milwaukee· 29 minutes agoBy Victor Blackwell and Devon M. Sayers(CNN) — A new sculpture park that memorializes African Americans’ centuries-long fight for freedom – from slavery to modern day – has opened in Montgomery,
Yuen: Memories of the Jim Crow South haunted a Minnesota man. Then the nightmares terrorized his...
Tribune via AOL· 1 day agoNightmares afflicted the father of Lee Hawkins Jr. and awoke his son, then just a little boy growing up in the St. Paul suburb of Maplewood. His dad would jostle out of his sleep screaming, ...
How Zeek Williams and New Era Detroit used grassroot methods to rethink community safety
Detroit Metro Times· 1 day agoIt’s a Friday night and a half-dozen volunteers and employees from New Era Detroit are gathered...
U of A to disclose, review investment policies after student and staff pressure
CBC via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe University of Alberta will disclose and review its investment policies after weeks of increased...
