As the founder of the Last Poets, Nuriddin, who has died aged 73, was a hero to everyone from Tupac Shakur to Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis
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The Forgotten Girls Who Led the School-Desegregation Movement | The Atlantic
Before the 9-year-old Linda Brown became the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, a generation of black girls and teens led the charge against the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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Meet The Last Surviving Witness To The Tulsa Race Riot Of 1921 | NPR
“It was a neighborhood where you could be treated with respect…”
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An entire Manhattan village owned by black people was destroyed to build Central Park | Timeline
Three churches, a school, and dozens of homes were demolished.
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How Ceiling Fans Helped Slaves Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners | Atlas Obscura
The punkahs of the Antebellum era served many purposes.
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The 16 Black Panthers Still Behind Bars | Colorlines
Black Panther alumni celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Party in 2016. In this informal census we present the names of those who are still in prison, who were recently released and who died while incarcerated.
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Former Black Panther Romaine ‘Chip’ Fitzgerald will remain behind bars | San Francisco Bay View
On May 4, former Black Panther Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald agreed to a five-year denial of parole instead of insisting on a parole hearing, even though he has served more time than any former Black Panther still behind bars: 49 years.
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America’s first black female governor? Stacey Abrams: ‘You don’t tell yourself no’ | The Guardian
After winning the state’s Democratic primary, Abrams tells Lucia Graves about her uphill battle to win in Georgia, a state with a history of segregationist governors.
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John Legend Explains How Cash Bail Traps People of Color | Colorlines
Narrated by Legend and illustrated by Molly Crabapple, a new video from Color of Change explains how bail practices fuel mass incarceration.
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Dovey Johnson Roundtree, Barrier-Breaking Lawyer, Dies at 104 | The New York Times
The jurors were looking at her when they filed into court. That, Dovey Johnson Roundtree knew, could have immense significance for her client, a feebleminded day laborer accused of one of the most sensational murders of the mid-20th century.
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