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Saturday event with Emmett Till's family to focus on addressing racism
The Buffalo News· 1 day 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· 1 day agoSummers-Polite recalled a particular instance in Mississippi when she learned more about Emmett Till...
A Black teen was wrongfully executed for murdering a White woman in 1931. Now, his family is suing...
CNN.com· 5 days agoFor 85 years Susie Williams Carter believed her brother was guilty of the crime he’d been convicted...
Kansas Republicans fall over themselves defending convicted felon Donald Trump
Kansas Reflector via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoWe all know he did it. Of course he did. Of course Donald Trump, that broken promise in human form,...
Good Morning, Buffalo: Key bills percolating in Albany as Legislature's session nears end
The Buffalo News· 9 hours agoWith one week remaining in the New York State Legislature's 2024 session, leaders are expected to...
Inside the Battle to Preserve ‘Black Wall Street’
Capital B via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIt’s time — past time — that Tulsa’s historic Greenwood neighborhood be granted national monument status, said Tiffany Crutcher, a native of the Oklahoma...
Family honors Pfc. Milton Lee Olive, who made ultimate sacrifice while saving 4 others in Vietnam
CBS News· 4 days agoVeterans this Memorial Day paid tribute to Milton Lee Olive III, the first African American soldier...
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 ...
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...
In search of the Beloved Community: Remembering Congressman John Lewis
WUSF 89.7· 3 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 ...