To kick off Black history Month, the United States Postal Service added civil rights activist Dorothy Height to its Black Heritage Series on the Forever Stamp, NBC News reported. Height is the 40th person added to the series which features other pioneers including Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, and Martin Luther King, Jr. […]
He says Rep. Lewis should “spend more time on fixing and helping his district.”
The murder of a 14-year-old African-American boy named Emmett Till still anger and transcends how America views justice and racism in America til this day. With many of our brothers and sisters slain and receiving no justice has always been a struggle the black community is not unfortunately used to, but President Barack Obama is taking the […]
One of the things we could take away from those who boycotted buses and lunch counters during the civil rights struggles of the fifties and sixties is not to give credit where credit wasn’t due. Not one black actor was nominated during the 88th Academy Awards. When Blacks couldn’t sit where they wanted on the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Malcolm X remains one of the most important figures of the American Civil Rights Movement, and his transformation into a vocal human rights activist added to his already impressive legacy. The man later known as el-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz came to relax some of his fiery politics that defined the earlier part of his time in the […]
