The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only Black battalion of women to serve in Europe during World War II, was credited with solving a growing mail crisis during its stint in England and, upon their return, serving as a role model to generations of […]
A young Utah woman’s heated yet unthreatening response to an officer’s treatment of her and a friend landed her in jail. Nineteen-year-old Lauren Gibson and her friends were driving back to California from a camping trip in Panguitch, Utah, when the group was pulled over and […]
In Texas, a Black man exercised his right to vote in the presidential primary on March 4, 2020, and waited six hours to cast his vote. But to his dismay, he was arrested by undercover police officers because it was apparently illegal for him to […]
The first Black American female transplant surgeon has called out the racial biased that permeates the organ donation system. Velma Scantlebury told Zenger that Black Americans continue to face unique disadvantages with the organ donation process compared to whites. Scantlebury, who has worked in the […]
*It’s like a scene in a movie. One of the teens implicated in the killing of Pop Smoke; 20-year-old Corey Walker‘s cell mate was planted by police. That’s a clever way to get to the truth. Imagine Walker, young, caged and maybe freaked-out so he tells […]
Martha Tucker, a 94-year-old woman who didn’t get a chance to wear a wedding dress when she got married in 1952, just received an opportunity she never expected. According to AL, Tucker was recently watching Coming to America when she expressed her wish to her granddaughter, […]
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