The city of Atlanta and mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms unveiled plans for a new monument to civil rights icon Coretta Scott King on Thursday in honor of Women’s Equality Day. In the U.S. there are only 394 public sculptures of women yet more than 4,500 monuments of men. Popular streaming […]
I live in Washington, D.C., and much like most of the parents in the area—the whole country, really—my wife and I have looked for mostly outdoor activities to do with our kids since the beginning of the pandemic. Washington, D.C., and its surrounding suburbs, […]
65 years ago, Emmett Till was brutally murdered and his tragic legacy became engraved into American history. On Aug. 28, 1955, Emmett Till was brutally murdered after a White woman falsely accused him of inappropriate behavior. Sixty-five years later, his lynching stands as a harrowing example of […]
In 2009, Jeanette J. Epps became the first Black woman astronaut for NASA. Next year, she’ll make history again as the first Black woman to live and work on the International Space Station for an extended period of time. NASA announced this week that Epps has been assigned […]
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