Frances Hooks, the civil rights leader and widow of Benjamin Hooks, died Thursday.
In case you missed it, the hashtag #CivilRightsTwitter was trending this week. What would Twitter have been like if Malcolm, Martin, Rosa and others had been able to beef with each other or tweet their thoughts. Now we have an idea! https://twitter.com/TheCosby/status/676193568692809728/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/ubuntugraphy/status/676229970193203202/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/neosoulful/status/676228350382329856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
CNN anchor Don Lemon, who has criticized Black Lives Matter and other activists for standing up for their rights, told The New York Times in…
CNN anchor Don Lemon, who has criticized Black Lives Matter and other activists for standing up for their rights, told The New York Times in a recent interview that if he weren’t a journalist, he would be a writer like James Baldwin, or an activist like Malcolm X. “I’d probably be a writer like James […]
There are some big problems going on in the country right now and we have the power to fix them. Gun violence, police brutality, and high…
Ali's words are still comparable to what we face today.
The Justice Department is set to open a federal civil rights investigation following the emergence of a now-viral video showing a school resource officer slamming and dragging a Black female student across the classroom.
Seven inmates were given a combined total punishment of 7,150 days, or 19.75 years, of solitary confinement at the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC).
Naomi King, the sister-in-law of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was viciously attacked outside of her Atlanta retirement home on Friday, WSB-TV Atlanta reports.…
Rep. John Lewis reflects on the lives of civil rights giants and implores the next generation of activists to pick up the baton.
America has lost a warrior of the Civil Rights Movement. Amelia Boynton Robinson died today in Alabama of a massive stroke.
Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders reached out to Black voters last weekend in Republican-heavy Charleston, South Carolina in the hopes of drawing…
