During the show, BET’s head-woman-in-charge took a slight break from the entertainment to recognize a pivotal moment in American history — the upcoming 50 year
5 reasons you should visit the National Center for Civil and Human Rights Tony Award-winning director and playwright George C. Wolfe (Angels in America: Millennium
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Earlier this week, UMass basketball player Derrick Gordon reignited the national conversation about gays in sports when he came out to his team and the
Martin Luther King Jr. not only received a Nobel Peace Prize in addition to numerous other awards his life matched his message of nonviolence. His
Stax Records was more than a music machine releasing hits by the likes of Otis Redding and The Staple Singers. According to author and music
President Barack Obama addressed the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 43rd annual legislative conference at the Phoenix Awards Gala last night in Washington, D.C. Days after
Yesterday, President Obama commemorated the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech and the historic 1963 March on Washington with
The similarities in the murders of Trayvon Martin and Emmitt Till are stark and eerie: Two young black teenagers, some sixty years apart, made innocent
Rosa Parks was the right woman, for the right time, in the right place. Fifty-eight years after the quiet, unassuming seamstress refused to give up
“After freedom you know colored people didn’t have nothing.”— 101 year-old former slave Fountain Hughes
Lil Wayne’s degrading Emmett Till analogy is regrettable and outrageous. His response to Till’s family is even worse.
As of last year, the United States Congress had an approval rating of around 11 percent. The current Congress will probably go down in history
It’s here. Today, Jan. 21, 2013 marks the 57th presidential inauguration, and the second in which our first black president, Barack Obama, will be sworn
Residential Segregation by Income On the Rise Again in America The word “segregation” is used in describing changes of the 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is hosting its 55th annual conference in Lake Mary and Sanford, Fla., the region near Orlando where George Zimmerman confessed to
May 5, 1862 is the date that the underdog Puebla, Mexico outnumbered by the oppressor, France, kicked France out of their territory. What is often overlooked, however, is the connection
In 1954, the United States Supreme Court declared the system of legal segregation unconstitutional, thereby calling for the end of segregation with all deliberate speed.
NEW YORK – A former Black Panther Party leader who warred against the police and the establishment in the 1970s put Jay-Z, Diddy, Kanye West,
“The Lord knew I live in a hard town, so he gave me a hard head.”
