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We don’t need to be treated like children,” one tourist fumed about Trump bullying museums to rewrite history and erase ...
That America—assuming it ever existed—may now be gone forever. My fellow citizens, America is FUBAR (a term that dates from World War II). We are not faintly who we claim to be. Rather than a ...
Members of First Baptist Church on Martin Luther King Street, the first Black Baptist Church in Selma and one of the first ...
In a powerful and far-ranging conversation on Hard Knock Radio, we caught up with educator, activist, and emcee Ras Ceylon to reflect on the deep meaning of Black August, the cultural resistance ...
Jamaican sculptor Basil Watson has been chosen to create a historic statue of Robert Smalls, marking the first monument ...
O’Connell rightly luxuriates in the title “The Liberator”. And 250 years on, we desperately need leaders who are prepared, ...
The area was previously a place of abode for freed slaves in the mid-19th century after slavery had been abolished.
But there are others who warn that an Obama presidency could hurt African-Americans. They say an Obama victory could cause white Americans to ignore entrenched racial divisions while claiming that ...
The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he ...
There are more than a handful of celebs who could stand to put their chronically online status on pause for awhile! Let's get ...
Today, Gee’s Bend quilter Loretta Pettway Bennett has enough money to buy new fabric for her creations, but it just wouldn’t ...