In August of 2019, it will mark the auspicious 400-year anniversary of when an English ship brought a small group of enslaved Africans to Jamestown, Virginia. While this technically wasn’t the first time that black slaves were bought to the Americas, it is generally considered […]
A stream of racist KKK flyers were plastered all over the Iron Stone community in Lothian, Maryland, but Anne Arundel County Police said the incident doesn’t present a crime. The offensive flyers were first reported to authorities on Monday afternoon by a local resident. Officers […]
Protesters held umbrellas in one hand, and shined their phones’ flashlights in the other. Rain beat against the ground in time with their chants. One at a time, members of a huddle called out the names of murdered or missing black men and women, including […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A newly published video shows a white Republican U.S. senator in Mississippi praising someone by saying: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.” Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who faces a black Democratic challenger in a […]
A black security guard was shot dead by a police officer as he held down a gunman at the bar where he worked. Jemel Roberson, 26, was working early Sunday at Manny’s Blue Room ― a bar in the predominantly black Chicago suburb of Robbins, Illinois ― […]
With “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” the historian David W. Blight wants to enrich our understanding of an American in full who, for more than half his life, wasn’t even legally recognized as such. Now that Douglass is enshrined on his pedestal, shorn of what made him “thoroughly and […]
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