Founder of NY’s largest Black-owned insurance provider dies at 98

Ernesta Procope founded E.G. Bowman INC., the first Black-owned brokerage company on Wall Street Ernesta Procope, whose company called itself the first Black-owned insurance brokerage company on Wall Street, died on November 30 in her home in Queens. She was 98-years-old, according to the New York […]

Justice Department Continues to Look at 20 Cold Cases from the Civil Rights Era; 13 of Which Are Police-Involved Killings In Southern States

This week the United States Justice Department closed its investigation into the death of Emmett Till. Despite finding no new evidence to bring new charges in the 14-year-old’s 1955 lynching, the FBI’s Cold Case Initiative continues to investigate other cold-case crimes with racial bias implications from the […]

A Remarkable Thesis on Sam Cooke!

*I just came across a wonderful thesis written by Gabriel Jacob Rosenberg and submitted in 2016 to the faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts.   Despite Economic Recovery, Black Workers Continue To Experience Financial Difficulty […]