By Black PR Wire with additional video content from Blackfacts.com Colin Powell Becomes Secretary of State, 2001 As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993—the first African American to hold that […]
By Tiffany D. Hightower On the heels of Juneteenth becoming federally recognized as a national holiday, Black people were left having to explain the gravity of the moment. In essence Juneteenth is the embodiment of […]
A year after the police murder set off protests and violence, Americans wrestle with racial reckoning and political stalemate
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By Ben Jealous Thanks to the voters who elected President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, we now have a Department of Justice that actually cares about justice. And I am not just talking […]
By Dr. Patrick Graham As word spread about Lieutenant Caron Nazario’s encounter with the Windsor, Virginia police and we get closer to a verdict for the Derek Chauvin trial, my colleague suggested to me, “They […]
By Hazel Trice Edney Among the first evidence presented by prosecutors in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in his killing of George Floyd is that it was not just 8 minutes […]
By Dr. Patrick Graham Image of George Floyd mural by F. Muhammad from Pixabay There was a distant emptiness in the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s eyes as he looked away while rocking his knee deeper into the […]
By Megan T. Ebor, Enricka Norwood-Scott, Alison B. Hamilton and Michele Cooley-Strickland The parenting bible, “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” teaches mothers what to anticipate over the course of their children’s lives. However, for […]
By Kristen Clarke In a year defined by distress and tragedy, no one has felt that chaos more painfully than the Black community, We’ve seen the coronavirus pandemic tear through our neighborhoods at a devastating […]
Now in their seventies, they’re still performing. One surviving member of the famed quintet calls Donald Trump “Satan in a suit.”
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Defunding or abolishing police departments has become a national debate in the wake of George Floyd’s death, but Minneapolis residents say abolishment isn’t necessarily a clear-cut answer. Some even view abolishment as punitive — a […]
By John Lewis Mr. Lewis, the civil rights leader who died on July 17, wrote this essay shortly before his death, to be published upon the day of his funeral. While my time here has now come […]
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