By EJI Staff, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On June 16, 1944, George Stinney Jr., a ninety-pound, black, fourteen-year-old boy, was executed in the electric chair in Columbia, South Carolina. Three months earlier, on March 24, George and his sister were playing in their yard when two young white girls briefly approached and asked where they […]
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Mr. Lincoln and Negro Equality. | The New York Times
By The New York Times Archives, The New York Times The Tribune, of Wednesday morning, copied conspicuously from the Albany Atlas and Argus an article intended to prove that Mr. LINCOLN holds firmly and unflinchingly to the principles of the Republican Party, — and that among them, is the principle of Negro Equality. With what […]
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Survivors of KKK’s Ax Handle Attack Appalled at Trump Speech | The Daily Beast
By Michael Daly, The Daily Beast The president plans to speak at the RNC on the anniversary of a racist rampage in Jacksonville, Florida. On the same day President Trump is scheduled to give his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination at the big arena in Jacksonville, Florida, another group will meet in a nearby park where […]
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Covellite alumnus secures Big Sky Film Grant for documentary on black cowboys | Missoulian
Covellite International Film Festival alumnus Charles Perry aims to shed light on African American rodeo culture through his upcoming documentary “The Black Cowboy” — and now, thanks to a grant from the Montana Film Office, part of that story will be told in Montana. Perry first hit the Butte scene when he attended the film […]
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Gov. Wolf signs law making Juneteenth official state holiday | WHYY
Gov. Tom Wolf signed a law on Wednesday designating June 19 as “Juneteenth National Freedom Day” in Pennsylvania. “While Independence Day marks the conception of a free nation, Juneteenth is a celebration of the fulfillment of this ideal through the Emancipation Proclamation,” Wolf said in a press release. “In honoring this day, I encourage all Pennsylvanians […]
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Lebron James To Fund LA Filmmaker’s Documentary On The Tulsa Massacre | The Oklahoma Eagle
Los Angeles, Cali. – LeBron James’ entertainment company, Springhill Productions, is funding a filmmaker’s documentary on Tulsa’s Greenwood District and the 1921 race massacre. Salima Koroma, who made her directorial debut in “Bad Rap” a 2016 documentary about four Asian-American rappers, told The Oklahoma Eagle she pitched her documentary to Springhill in April. Springhill recently produced the Netflix […]
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The problem with the Minneapolis police has decades-deep roots | The Washington Post
Samuel G. Freedman, a journalism professor at Columbia University, is writing a book about Hubert Humphrey, civil rights and the 1948 presidential campaign. Six blocks and 75 years away from the Minneapolis street where George Floyd suffocated beneath the knee of a police officer, a squad of a dozen cops raided a restaurant owned by […]
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Supreme Court Bans School Segregation, Sparking Massive White Resistance | EJI, A History of Racial Justice
On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation in public education was unconstitutional, overturning the “separate but equal” doctrine in place since 1896, and sparking massive resistance among white Americans committed to racial inequality. The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education grew out of several cases challenging racial […]
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North Carolina Proposes Compensation for Victims of Decades-Long Forced Sterilization Program | EJI, A History of Racial Justice
On May 16, 2012, the North Carolina legislature considered a bill recommending compensation for victims of the state’s forced sterilization program. Beginning in 1933, the Eugenics Board of North Carolina oversaw approximately 7,600 forced sterilizations. In contrast with other eugenics programs in the United States, North Carolina’s board enabled county departments of public welfare to […]
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‘The Black Cowboy’ will shine light on history hidden in plain sight | The Undefeated
Documentary in production lends insight into African-American cowboys and rodeo Denard Butler is not the typical cowboy in Checotah, Oklahoma, known as the steer wrestling capital of America. He holds an advanced degree in behavioral health and worked for a time as a therapist. He speaks routinely about “the laws of the universe” and quotes […]
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