A promotional flyer tied to a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event has ignited outrage in Atlanta, drawing accusations of disrespect and misuse of civil rights icons. The flyer, which depicts Dr. King and Rosa Parks in vulgar, digitally altered images, surfaced online this week […]
An Ohio grand jury has formally indicted a man for chasing down and assaulting a special-needs toddler. The man was caught on school surveillance footage knocking the child down and faces more than one year in prison for what officials call child abuse. Video of school employee picking up autistic 3-year-old […]
As Black History Month comes to a close, actress Kerry Washington is rounding out her month-long series of image recreations of iconic Black women in history. Thus far, there have been three posted under her hashtag in use, #BlackHERstory. The first she posted on Instagram was in […]
Kerry Washington is transforming herself into trailblazing Black women to celebrate Black History Month. The actor has re-created historic images of three women so far this month: supermodel Beverly Johnson, Olympian Wilma Rudolph and, most recently, civil rights icon Rosa Parks. She has been publishing them […]
White, then 23, was working as a housekeeper in the capital city of Baton Rouge in 1953 when she took action Martha White, a Black woman whose actions helped launch the 1953 bus boycotts in Louisiana’s capital city, has died. She was 99. White died […]
FILE – In this April 6, 2017 file photo, Rhea McCauley, a niece of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks, poses in front of the rebuilt house of Rosa Parks in Berlin. Brown University announced Thursday, March 8, 2018, it has canceled plans to […]
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