Exclusive: Rakem Balogun spoke out against police brutality. Now he is believed to be the first prosecuted under a secretive US effort to track so-called ‘black identity extremists’
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‘In the Dark’ Podcast Examines the 6 Trials of Curtis Flowers | Colorlines
The Black Mississippian maintained his innocence through six trials for capital murder. The Peabody Award-winning crime podcast revisits the case that put Flowers on death row.
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters is founded, May 8, 1926 | Politico
Under Randolph’s direction, the union enrolled 51 percent of railroad porters within a year.
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Cyntoia Brown, Trafficking Victim Serving Life Sentence for Murder, Will Get Clemency Hearing | The New York Times
Cyntoia Brown, a Nashville woman who is serving a life sentence for killing a man who picked her up for sex while she was being trafficked as a teenager, will receive a hearing that could lead to her release, officials said on Thursday.
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The World’s Most Celebrated Anti-Slavery Program Is Being Gutted | OZY
There is clearly a corporate agenda behind these [political] changes. Outsourcing is a necessary condition for the existence of slave labor.
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Moving From Generosity To Justice: A Conversation With The Ford Foundation President | 1a.org
1a.org Staff, 1a.org [dropcap]Ford[/dropcap] Foundation President Darren Walker says these words have been a guiding light in his approach to leading the philanthropy with a goal of tackling the root causes of inequality in society. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Philanthropy is marvelous, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which […]
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Lezley McSpadden, Michael Brown’s Mother, Is Considering Running For Political Office In Ferguson | Essence
Ever since her son, 18-year-old Michael Brown, was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, Lezley McSpadden has been a tireless advocate for justice. Now, she could be running for office.
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Tribeca Film Festival hosts screening and Q&A for ‘Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story’ | New York Amsterdam News
Martin’s extrajudicial killing seemed to reopen a portal to history many had fought to shut tight—a time when the Klu Klux Klan routinely and with impunity killed Blacks in the South and across rural America in the 100 years from Reconstruction through the civil rights era.
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HBCUs Are Producing a New Generation of Young Women | AFRO
Today, public HBCUs continue to produce talent for the 21st Century with a disproportionate number being young women.
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James H. Cone, a Founder of Black Liberation Theology, Dies at 79 | The New York Times
He described black liberation theology as “an interpretation of the Christian Gospel from the experience and perspectives and lives of people who are at the bottom in society — the lowest economic and racial groups.”
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