The NAACP – the most prominent interracial civil rights organization in American history – published the first issue of The Crisis, its official magazine, 110 years ago, in 1910. For almost two and a half decades, sociologist and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois served […]
What country do you live in? Racism is alive & well in the United States of America. This is a letter I have been meaning to write over the course of the past year while I have been active in the call for social justice. […]
(CNN)It was on this day in 1955 when a simple act of defiance elevated a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, into a pivotal symbol in America’s civil rights movement. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus. […]
A national police training association is facing backlash after distributing a research-style paper to its members that referred to Black Lives Matter as a “terrorist group,” and depicted protesters as wanting to “overthrow the U.S. government,” according to the Associated Press. A member of the International Law Enforcement Educators […]
By Viviane Faver The superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, retired Army Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III, stepped down days after the Washington Post documented “relentless racism” suffered by the Black cadets at the state-sponsored school. The retired four-star general wrote in a public resignation […]
The Black community may be more receptive ‘if members of our task force give it the green light,’ says Dr. Leon McDougle. The National Medical Association, a group of Black physicians, has created a task force to independently vet COVID-19 drugs, vaccines and […]
I live in Washington, D.C., and much like most of the parents in the area—the whole country, really—my wife and I have looked for mostly outdoor activities to do with our kids since the beginning of the pandemic. Washington, D.C., and its surrounding […]
On Wednesday, director Nia DaCosta tweeted out a stunning new trailer for her upcoming Candyman film, along with a brief explanation of the themes she’s exploring in the movie. If it weren’t the trailer for a new Jordan Peele production, it’d be an extraordinary short […]
By Victor Omondi Yasmine Jackson, Joe Jackson’s granddaughter, is nursing stub wounds after her white neighbor stabbed her seven times, as reported by PageSix. According to Yasmine, the white woman began chasing her, and when she finally got hold of her, she started stabbing her […]
A prominent branch of the U.S. Armed Forces has taken aggressive action that calls for an early American symbol’s abolition, which many equate with white supremacy and the enslavement of blacks. The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) is considered by military experts to be the […]
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