black activists

It saddens us to reveal that Chicago's own Timuel Black, a longtime civil right activist and respected historian, has died at the age of 102.

CHICAGO (AP) — Airickca Gordon-Taylor, a relative of Emmett Till who spent her life educating others about the black teenage lynching victim’s legacy through her foundation, died at age 50, according to family members. LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE. Gordon-Taylor, of suburban Chicago, died early Saturday, hours after a hospital stay. […]

The founder of an African-American Museum in Baton Rouge, LA was found dead in the trunk of a car three miles from her home.

While history might remember C. Delores Tucker as a fiery champion who shouted down the violent and sexist rap lyrics of the ’90’s, the facts reveal she was much more than that. The Philadelphia native is also the first Black woman named secretary of state in Pennsylvania and a notable civil rights activist. Born Cynthia […]

New research on racial justice protesters.

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Facebook is under the microscope.

The move to stop government silence on surveillance.

Labor organizer. Radical socialist activist. Anarchist Communist. These are some of the titles that Lucy Parsons held in her fascinating life. At one point, the Chicago police considered her so much of a threat that they said she was “more dangerous as a thousand rioters.” Born Lucy, or Lucia, Eldine Gonzalez in 1853, much of Parsons’ […]

Add another racially charged incident to an increasing list of discrimination charges against American Airline. In the latest incident, a civil rights activist Tamika Mallory complained that an American Airlines pilot kicked her off a plane on Sunday over a seat assignment dispute, the New York Daily News reports. Mallory, who co-chaired the Women’s March […]

Activist Tamika Mallory complained that an American Airlines pilot kicked her off a plane over a seat assignment dispute.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge says he intends to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses Black Lives Matter and several movement leaders of inciting violence that led to a gunman’s deadly ambush of law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge last year. U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson issued that warning in an order Wednesday, […]