“When They See Us” will be available to stream on Netflix beginning May 31.
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Paul Robeson fought Jim Crow, lynching, and McCarthyism | People’s World
Tony Pecinovsky, People’s World Paul Robeson, Trafalgar Square, London, June 1959, ullstein bild/Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]Gerald[/dropcap] Horne has made an amazing contribution to African American radical history with the newly published biography Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Though not as widely known as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or Malcolm X […]
View MoreHarlem street renamed in honor of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis | New York Amsterdam News
AMNews Staff, New York Amsterdam News Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis with their children, Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] northeast corner of 123rd Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue in Harlem now bears the names of famed acting and civil rights couple Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Dwyer Cultural Center hosted the ceremonial unveiling of […]
View MoreHistoric Freedmen’s Bureau Records Released | Smithsonian
Volunteer Indexing Effort of 4 Million Freed-Slave Records Launched on Juneteenth
View MoreThe All-American Nightmares of Jordan Peele | Rolling Stone
How do you top a movie that shook Hollywood? The auteur behind ‘Get Out’ has a simple plan: Scare the hell out of you
View MoreThe O’Jays Give the People What They Want for the Last Time | Rolling Stone
After a lengthy breaking from recording, the group known for Seventies hits like “Back Stabbers” returned to the studio to make one final album
View MoreF.B.I. Was Told That Militia in New Mexico Planned to Kill Obama and Clinton | The New York Times
Simon Romero, The New York Times [dropcap]LAS[/dropcap] CRUCES, N.M. — Before the F.B.I. arrested Larry Hopkins, the leader of the right-wing militia that detained migrant families in the New Mexico desert, he’d had so many run-ins with the law that his police record stretched across much of the United States. Oregon police arrested him in […]
View MoreMati Diop Becomes The First Black Woman To Have A Film In The Cannes Film Festival Competition Section | Essence
Her Senegalese film, “Atlantiques,” will compete for the Palme D’or this year.
View MoreProtests erupt after police shoot woman near Yale University | NBC News
“I am so deeply sorry to the individuals who were involved that this ever occurred,” said the mayor of Hamden, Connecticut.
View MoreFlint Receives $77 Million to Fund New Water Projects | Colorlines
Five years after the water crisis began, the city continues to recover with projects to protect residents and update infrastructure.
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