OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Black police officers find themselves torn between two worlds: They feel the pain of seeing yet another black man killed at the hands of fellow officers, yet they must also try to keep the peace during angry protests fueled by that death. Those feelings, familiar to many blacks in law enforcement […]
John Morton-Finney was a true Renaissance man, earning an impressive 11 degrees during his lifetime. The former Buffalo Soldier Army man and educator is also considered by some historians the longest-serving lawyer of all time. Morton-Finney was born to a former slave father and a free mother in Kentucky. The parents taught their seven children […]
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Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt has represented numerous families of victims of police violence, including Botham Jean and Atatiana Jefferson. He recently gained three more clients. The attorney tweeted that he has been hired by the families of three Black men who were killed by police in the same week. Aside from being victims of police […]
The first Million Man March was held on October 16, 1995 in Washington, D.C., bringing together a large gathering of Black men on the grounds of the National Mall. While official numbers have been debated over time, there is no doubt that close to a million men were in attendance, if not more. The Million […]
Despite Donald’s Trump’s seemingly racist rhetoric, his administration hopes to woo Black voters ahead of the 2020 election. As noted by Politico, when Trump took office in January 2017, the unemployment rate among African-Americans was 7.7 percent. Friday’s jobs report pegged it at 6 percent for July. SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER: LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM […]
When Democrat Beto O’Rourke takes the stage in the second round of presidential primary debates on Tuesday, three young black men from Michigan who were inspired by ex-NFL player Colin Kaepernick to kneel during the national anthem before their high school football games will be in the audience as guests of the former Texas congressman. […]
Frank Snowden Jr. was a Classics professor and scholar who studied the lives of Black people during the Classical Antiquity period in Ancient Greece and Rome. During his study, Snowden suggested that Black people didn’t suffer rampant racism and slavery as they did in the United States. Snowden was born July 17, 1911 in York […]
Frederic Morrow made history on July 9, 1955 after he was appointed as the first Black executive to serve in the White House. Under President Dwight Eisenhower, the New Jersey native was the Administrative Officer for Special Projects from 1955 to 1961. Morrow was born in 1909 in Hackensack, attending high school in the Bergen […]
Cedric Willis had every reason to live. In 1994, when he was 19, the Mississippi man was wrongfully convicted in a rape and murder case, though the witness couldn’t even agree on the details of the crime. Willis would ultimately spend 12 years in jail and like so many other wrongfully convicted men, he’d do some […]
Dwyane Wade is speaking out about why it was important for him to support his younger son going to a pride parade this spring. Wade’s 12-year-old-son Zion attended Miami Beach Pride with his stepmother, Gabrielle Union. He shared photos of himself attending the annual event on social media, as did his supportive older brother. In one photo, […]
May is National Mental Health Month. African-American boys are at particular risk for mental health issues as many of them live with untreated trauma and are exposed to harsh treatment and penalties for behavior considered a normal part of development in other cultures. Mental health expert Rwenshaun Miller explains what we can do to help […]
