Just two months after the NAACP issued a formal travel advisory for Florida, warning visitors that the state has become “openly hostile toward African Americans” under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s leadership, two major Black organizations are moving their annual multimillion-dollar conferences elsewhere.
Lacks’s cells were the first human cells to multiply outside of the body, and her unknowing contribution to medicine played a vital role in the polio vaccine, cloning, in vitro fertilization, gene mapping and much more.
Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep. Steven Horsford and New York University history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat join Jonathan Capehart to discuss the right-wing attacks on Blackness and civil rights happening across America.
ANYONE WHO HAS SEARCHED FOR A JOB IN TODAY’S MARKET KNOWS THAT FINDING EMPLOYMENT (WITH A BACHELOR’S DEGREE, NO LESS) IS AN ARDUOUS TASK.
A prominent civil rights organization has issued a travel advisory warning for Black people and LGBTQ+ planning to visit Florida, saying the sunshine state had become “openly hostile.”
The Trump voter is often portrayed in media and pop culture as a working-class white person, down on their luck and desperate for change. These voters were — and remain — willing to look past Trump’s erratic and unorthodox behavior and “politically incorrect” commentary if his presidency brings better jobs. These voters, the narrative goes, Continue Reading…
“I’ll break your arm, that’s what I’m about to do,” said an Alabama police officer as he wrestled 25-year-old Chikesia Clemons to the ground, pulling her shirt in a way that revealed her breasts and then leaving her chest bare as she was handcuffed.
To begin, any assessment of President Obama has to reckon with the extraordinary election that resulted in the election of Donald Trump as his successor, a President who has seemed determined to erase Obama’s legacy.
