Little Known Black History Facts

Chicago, like many other cities across America, has an ugly history regarding their treatment of Black lives and the enduring stench of racism. On July 27, 1919, 100 years ago this Saturday, an angry white mob contributed to the tragic death of a Black teenager who made the fatal mistake of crossing an imaginary racial […]

Little Known Black History Facts

In 1876, South Carolina and other southern states were hotbeds for racial and civil disturbances. With the Confederate South losing the Civil War to the Union Army, Reconstruction was threatened with the rise of riots sparked by white Democratic Party activists who wished to suppress the Black vote and upend the Republican Party. South Carolina’s […]

The Red Summer of 1919 refers to a series of race riots that took place in dozens of cities across the United States. On this day that year, Washington, D.C. endured an ugly race riot that left dozens dead and several more injured. As World War I was becoming a memory, many former military men, […]

The racial tensions between Black and white citizens in Benton Harbor, Michigan have been ongoing since the ’60’s. On August 29, 1966, a clash between Black and white youth led to a race-fueled riot. At the end of it, 18-year-old Cecil Hunt was dead. Benton Harbor, which rests across the St. Joseph River across from […]

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A protest against the re-election of President Barack Obama got out of hand at the University of Mississippi, and officials say racial slurs were tossed in a crowd that grew to about 400 students after rumors spread that a riot had broken out. Two arrests were reported but university officials say […]

Gossip

TMZ is reporting that two of Rodney King’s close friends aren’t buying his fiancée’s story about what happened leading up to his death and have gone to the police. Cynthia Kelley, who was engaged to King, says she was awakened by the sound of him banging on the window of their home just after 5 […]