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 […]
Colorado voters voted to abolish an amendment in their state’s constitution that still listed slavery and forced servitude as punishment for a crime on Tuesday. The vote comes more than 150 years after the U.S. Constitution ratified the 13th Amendment. Only 65 percent of Colorado residents voted […]
Actor Viggo Mortensen is apologizing after he used a racial slur Wednesday night during a panel for his newest movie. Mortensen was doing a Q&A session in Los Angeles for “Green Book,” a film that depicts the relationship between a black classical pianist (Mahershala Ali) and his […]
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