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Sputnik Monroe was a self-serving wrestler in Tennessee. He also advanced civil rights
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoNot Sputnik, He was a minor player, motivated by self-interest as well as his conscience, operating more on the fringe of polite society. Real heroes dominate history’s main ...
Texas education leaders unveil Bible-infused elementary school curriculum
ABC13 Houston· 4 days agoElementary school curriculum proposed this week would infuse new state reading and language arts...
Review: ‘Stokely’ at Court Theatre is an unfinished story of a uncompromising radical
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 20 hours 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 ...
Phil Lapsansky, historian, social activist, and retired curator of African American history at the...
Philly.com· 5 days agoPhil Lapsansky, 83, of Philadelphia, historian, social activist, former chief of reference and...
Dream Defenders Co-Executive Director Nailah Summers-Polite Talks Her Unique Journey To Activism
Black America Web· 5 days agoNailah Summers-Polite, the co-Executive Director at Dream Defenders, explained that her unique...
First African Baptist Church to commemorate 60 years since 'Bloody Tuesday'
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe commemorative events will conclude with a reception at 5:30 p.m. at First African Baptist...
South Dakota educators delve into state's new social studies standards at civics, history summit
The Daily Republic, Mitchell, S.D. via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoJun. 3—SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — As South Dakota approaches the implementation of newly adopted social studies standards set by the South Dakota Board of Education Standards, educators from across ...
State of Texas: ‘School choice’ plan poised to pass after runoff wins for Abbott-backed candidates
KXAN via Yahoo News· 3 days agoGov. Greg Abbott is declaring victory in his 18-month-long fight for a school choice initiative that...
The fight over Jackie Robinson
Washington Post· 1 hour agoRachel Robinson couldn’t give her blessing at first. At that point, it had been nearly 50 years since her husband, Jackie Robinson, died and more than 70...
‘Man of the People’ celebrates the larger-than-life story of Paul Robeson
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoFame fades. Names and accomplishments, no matter how large and striking, can become buried in history’s dust, reduced to but a whisper, if that, across the years. “Paul Robeson ...