There is a growing movement across the country of educators, lawmakers, civil rights activists and church leaders who say there is a renewed urgency to teach Black history in the wake of a crackdown on Black scholars and inclusive lesson plans.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) arrested Duane “Keffe D” Davis on Friday as part of its long-running investigation into Shakur’s unsolved 1996 slaying, officials announced.
“I’m videotaping the neighbor throwing water on everyone at Rose’s party,” the woman behind the camera can be heard saying as the horrified guests try to avoid getting soaked. “I am videotaping Rose’s neighbor throwing water on us.”
U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash during a hearing denied a request by Edward Blum’s American Alliance for Equal Rights for a preliminary injunction blocking Fearless Fund from considering applications for grants only from businesses led by Black women.
“Access and aptitude are not connected.” Those words come from former IBM CEO Ginny Rometty, who in 2012 became the first woman to lead the 112-year-old company.
Roland Martin discusses North Carolina Republicans attacking Black Female Supreme Court Justice for supporting diversity.
There is an irony to the fact that at the center of Trump’s many legal troubles right now are three strong black women. Mehdi Hasan says, “We should thank black women for doing what a bunch of white guys have failed to do for years: hold Donald Trump, hold a former President accountable… and the fact that they’re the ones doing it must be killing Trump.”
Ashley just had a baby. She’s sitting on the couch in a relative’s apartment in Clarksdale, Miss., wearing camo-print leggings and fiddling with the plastic hospital bracelets still on her wrists. It’s August and pushing 90 degrees, which means the brown patterned curtains are drawn, the air conditioner is on high, and the room feels like a hiding place.
A recent poll revealed that the majority of Donald Trump voters believe that racism against white Americans has become a bigger problem than racism against Black Americans.
