“I told myself I wasn’t going to be one of those cases that got abandoned,” said Fatoumata Camara, who dug up video proving she was beaten and robbed.
View MoreCategory: KOLUMN
Uzo Aduba To Play Shirley Chisholm In FX Limited Series, ‘Mrs. America’ | Blackfilm.com
Starring Cate Blanchett, Aduba is among the 11 new cast members to the series
View More
Elizabeth Cotten |Folkways
Master of American folk music
View More
Upper Marlboro, Maryland’s 1st Black Mayor Resigns Amidst Racist Bullying | Essence
Mayor Tonga Turner insisted she wasn’t resigning because of the racist bullying, with her spokesperson saying she wanted more time with family.
View More
“When They See Us” Shows How Black Slang Was Criminalized For The Central Park 5 & It Still Is Today | Bustle
Nylah Burton, Bustle Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix. Featured Image [dropcap]Ava[/dropcap] DuVernay’s new Netflix docuseries When They See Us depicts the heartbreaking story of the 1990 Central Park Five case in which a group of young Black and Latinx boys were convicted of a crime that they did not commit. Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, […]
View More
The FBI Admits Black Lives Matter Was Never a Threat. It’s White People You Should Be Worried About | The Root
Michael Harriot, The Root [dropcap]Last[/dropcap] week, as Donald Trump curtsied before the Queen; as Congressional Democrats continued to cower from their constitutional obligations; while we took our horses down to Old Town Road, mounted Megan Thee Stallion’s bandwagon and watched what happens When They See Us, the Federal Bureau of Investigation admitted that prejudiced assumptions […]
View More
New York City will be home to three new monuments honoring black women | NBC News
Shirley Chisholm, Billie Holiday and Elizabeth Jennings Graham will get statues in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.
View More
COMMENTARY: U.S. Attempt to Erase Harriet Tubman | The Afro-American
A. Scott Bolden, NNPA Newswire Correspondent, The Afro-American A photograph of Harriet Tubman is seen at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park’s Visitor Center in Church Creek, Maryland. (State Dept./Astrid Riecken). Featured Image [dropcap]With[/dropcap] uniquely American hypocrisy, the Trump Treasury Department has pushed back the 2016 plan to put escaped slave and Underground Railroad […]
View More
In diverse metro Atlanta, why are less than a quarter of homes black-owned? | Curbed
Only six U.S. cities have lower percentages of black homeowners, analysis finds
View More
Civil rights pioneer, black Catholic educator wins Church’s highest honor | Crux
Christopher White, Crux [dropcap]NEW YORK[/dropcap]- Longtime civil rights leader and a pioneer in Catholic higher education, Norman Francis, will receive the nation’s oldest and most prestigious award for American Catholics. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The University of Notre Dame announced Sunday that Francis will be the recipient of the 2019 Laetare Medal. He will receive the honor […]
View More
You must be logged in to post a comment.