Bahamian-American actor and civil rights activist Sidney Poitier supported the Poor People’s Campaign at Resurrection City, a shantytown set up by protestors in Washington, D.C., May 1968. | Source: Chester Sheard / Getty In the summer of 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. introduced the keynote speaker for […]
A Washington state man identified as William Cunningham is facing felony hate crime charges after video footage captured him hurling racial slurs as he threatened a Black student who was involved in an altercation with his daughter and her boyfriend. The incident in the Seattle […]
An Illinois social worker was stabbed to death during a scheduled home visit on Tuesday. According to CBS Chicago, Deidre Silas conducted a home visit in Sangamon County after reports of six young children being endangered surfaced. Silas, 36, went to the home to investigate and was […]
*WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03) and the Congressional Black Caucus released the reflections on the anniversary of the January 6th Insurrection: Lawrence Brooks, Oldest WWII Veteran Dies At 112 “We watched in horror as armed insurrectionists laid siege to the […]
Photo: Matt Rourke (AP) Willie Stokes, a Black man from Philadelphia who has spent the last 37 years in prison for murder, is now free, according to NPR. The primary witness in the investigation, Franklin Lee, was allegedly offered sex and drugs by detectives in exchange for […]
Lawrence Brooks, the oldest World War II veteran, died Wednesday at 112 years old in his native Louisiana. Drafted in 1940, Brooks served in a segregated U.S. army as part of the mostly Black 91st Engineer Battalion where he climbed the ranks to Private 1st […]
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