Bishop John Hurst Adams, one of the staples of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, died recently at the age of 90.
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Rollins Edwards, survivor of secret WWII mustard gas experiments and Summerville black leader, dies | The Post and Courier
A civil rights pioneer in Dorchester County and World War II veteran who was subject to classified Army chemical weapons tests and forced to keep quiet about the experience for decades, has died.
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Simone Biles Says She, Too, Was Abused by Larry Nassar | The New York Times
After having vocally supported her teammates as they publicly detailed the sexual abuse they endured, Simone Biles, one of the most decorated gymnasts in Olympic history, added her own name on Monday to the list of those who have accused Dr. Lawrence G. Nassar of sexual abuse.
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The Long Rise and Fast Fall of New York’s Black Mafia | Daily Beast
‘You can’t become known as a gangster. Once you’re known you’re finished. The old-timers understood that.’
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MITCHELL: New Lorraine Hansberry biopic worth every year, every penny it took | Chicago Sun Times
“Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle; legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non-violent,” Hansberry wrote in 1962.
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African-Americans etched historic mark on U.S. Olympic speed skating team | New York Amsterdam News
Speed skating, like most Winter Olympic sports, has long been devoid of sizable representation by African-Americans and people of color.
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Black Student Power in Boston | The Weekly Challenger
The story of the “Boston busing crisis” of the 1970s dominates popular and academic accounts of Boston’s civil rights movement.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s scorn for ‘white moderates’ in his Birmingham jail letter | The Washington Post
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began writing the “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” in the margins of newspapers, on scraps of paper, paper towels and slips of yellow legal paper smuggled into his cell, where he was kept in solitary confinement after being arrested April 12, 1963, on charges of violating Alabama’s law against mass public demonstrations.
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Bessie Rogers and Taylor Rogers | StoryCorps
Retired Memphis, Tennessee sanitation worker Taylor Rodgers and his wife, Bessie, were at the Mason Temple on April 3, 1968 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”.
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Riding in the plane that brought MLK’s body home forever changed Sun City man’s life | Island Packet
“It helped make me who I am.”
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