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Saturday event with Emmett Till's family to focus on addressing racism
The Buffalo News· 17 hours agoAn event in Buffalo will focus on the ongoing fight against racism and white supremacy more than...
Dream Defenders Co-Executive Director Nailah Summers-Polite Talks Her Unique Journey To Activism
Black America Web· 15 hours agoSummers-Polite recalled a particular instance in Mississippi when she learned more about Emmett Till...
Inside the Battle to Preserve ‘Black Wall Street’
Capital B via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoIt’s time — past time — that Tulsa’s historic Greenwood neighborhood be granted national monument status, said Tiffany Crutcher, a native of the Oklahoma...
A Black teen was wrongfully executed for murdering a White woman in 1931. Now, his family is suing...
KEYT 3 Santa Barbara· 5 days agoIn 1931, Alexander McClay Williams became the youngest person to be executed in Pennsylvania, when...
Analysis | America’s best decade, according to data
Washington Post· 7 days agoWhen pollsters asked Americans when America had the best economy, most moral society or best music, one variable best predicted their answers. It wasn’t...
Four years after George Floyd's murder, what's changed? | The Excerpt
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 days agoYou saw grants being given to do murals for tiny arts groups. Of course, millions took to the streets to protest Floyd's killing. So at the time, it seemed like almost similar to the murder ...
In search of the Beloved Community: Remembering Congressman John Lewis
WUSF 89.7· 2 days agoCongressman John Lewis spent a lifetime fighting for equality. When the Georgia representative died in 2020, aged 80, America had changed profoundly from when Lewis fought for desegregation ...
How Franz Kafka can help us understand the history of segregation in America
The Forward· 3 days agoStanley Corngold, a Princeton scholar of German literature, was visiting Jack Greenberg, a Columbia...
Remembering the legacy of the Rev. William Lawson
The Martinsburg Journal· 2 days agoLongtime Houston civil rights activist Rev. William “Bill” Lawson passed away this month at the age of 95. As a stalwart in the generation of civil...
Family honors Pfc. Milton Lee Olive, who made ultimate sacrifice while saving 4 others in Vietnam
CBS News· 3 days agoVeterans this Memorial Day paid tribute to Milton Lee Olive III, the first African American soldier...