McBath’s son, Jordan Davis, was murdered in 2012.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is leaving the Atlantic | The Washington Post
Ta-Nehisi Coates is leaving his position as a national correspondent for the Atlantic, a publication where he has emerged as one of the country’s top reporters and thinkers.
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How Frederick Douglass Challenged the Hypocrisy of Independence Day | Colorlines
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim.”
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Howard Alum Opens Hotel Dedicated To Black Culture | Blavity
‘The Moor’ opens this week and “pays homage to black culture’s finest moments both past and present,” says Damon Lawrence
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Dorothy Cotton, Civil Rights Pioneer and MLK Colleague, Dies | Afro
Dorothy Cotton, who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., taught nonviolence to demonstrators before marches and sometimes calmed tensions by singing church hymns, has died. She was 88.
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Malcolm X Day 2018 | New York Amsterdam News
“History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”— Malcolm X.
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Unseen photographs of civil rights conflict in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 | The Guardian
The Observer dispatched photographer Colin Jones to cover the story and capture the activism centred around the 16th Street Baptist church.
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Black activist jailed for his Facebook posts speaks out about secret FBI surveillance | The Guardian
Exclusive: Rakem Balogun spoke out against police brutality. Now he is believed to be the first prosecuted under a secretive US effort to track so-called ‘black identity extremists’
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters is founded, May 8, 1926 | Politico
Under Randolph’s direction, the union enrolled 51 percent of railroad porters within a year.
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Michelle Obama: ‘I Wish that Girls Could Fail as Bad as Men Do and Be OK’ | The Washington Informer
At the United State of Women Summit in Los Angeles on Saturday, former first lady Michelle Obama talked with actor and activist Tracee Ellis Ross, star of “Black-ish,” about gender equality.
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