Stacy Brown, The Washington Informer [dropcap]The[/dropcap] NAACP on Tuesday hosted its first tele-town hall of 2019, and it was all about the power of women — particularly Black women. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “As we celebrate Founder’s Day and also the 90th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, one of the things critically important with leadership is […]
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How Kamala Harris, a Tweet and a Pink and Green ‘Screech’ Proves We Need More Black Journalists | The Root
Michael Harriot, The Root [dropcap]Just[/dropcap] below the reported Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; immediately after the quiet white kid in class wearing the trenchcoat who doodles swastikas in the margins of his Social Studies book; ranks the third-place winner of people you don’t want mad at you: Black women. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] So it is with […]
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The War on Black Athletes | The Atlantic
Trump isn’t the first president to show such overt interest in sports, but he’s the only president in recent memory to attack athletes for their politics.
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New Year Brings Hope and Pushes for Proper Implementation with First Step Act | AFRO
George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Wesley Bell laughs during his speech after being sworn in as St. Louis County Prosecutor during a New Year’s Eve celebration on Tuesday, Jan. 01, 2019 in St. Louis, Mo. Between jokes Bell took a serious note, stating there is a lot of work that needs to be done. Photo by […]
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Bell fires veteran St. Louis County prosecutor who presented grand jury evidence in Michael Brown case | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
CLAYTON: On his second day in office, St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell fired the veteran assistant prosecutor Kathi Alizadeh, who was primarily responsible for presenting evidence to the grand jury that declined to indict a Ferguson police officer in the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown.
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Letitia James, the 67th New York State Attorney General, is also the first woman to ever hold this particular state-wide office. | Essence
Breanna Edwards, Essence THE BROOKLYN BOROUGH OF NEW YORK CITY, NY – DECEMBER 01: NYC Public Advocate Letitia James speaks on stage at World AIDS Day 2017 at Kings Theatre on December 1, 2017 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images for Housing Works, Inc. ). Featured […]
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How Saudi Arabia declared war on America’s Muslim congresswomen | Business Insider
Ever since the midterm election, conservative media in the United States have targeted with special zeal Ilhan Omar, an incoming Somali-American Democratic congresswoman and a devout Muslim who wears hijab.
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What’s up with all those Black Men who voted for the Republican in the Georgia Governor’s race? | The Washington Post
White female voters in Georgia showed little interest in helping black women fulfill their dream of electing Stacey Abrams as governor, which would have made her the first African American woman to head a state in the nation’s history.
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Decades before Stacey Abrams, these black women risked their lives to register black voters | The Washington Post
DeNeen L. Brown , The Washington Post Annell Ponder, a civil rights worker who fought against voter suppression in the South, is shown at the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. (Builder Levy (Chrysler Museum of Art)). Featured Image [dropcap]Annell[/dropcap] Ponder is one of those fearless black women whose names may not be […]
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5 Women Who Changed How We Think About Race | The New York Times
Amisha Padnani , The New York Times [dropcap]Devah[/dropcap] Pager, a Harvard sociologist who died on Nov. 2, demonstrated the tenacious power of race in hiring decisions. We looked back through our obituary archives and found five other women, some recently deceased, whose thinking had an impact on our understanding of race. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] 1862–1931 Ida […]
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