October 16: Nation of Islam's Minister Louis Farrakhan gathered one million black men together in Washington DC ... read more »

Black died Wednesday, his widow told the Chicago Sun-Times and WLS-TV. ... read more »

When the coronavirus pandemic struck, some states allowed law graduates to postpone taking the two-day, 12-hour exam for public health reasons. Meanwhile, George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis in May 2020, and subsequent racial unrest that summer, raised awareness of the bar exam's role in keeping people of color out of the profession. ... read more »

A flatbed tow truck from Harris Towing Group sat silently in front of Bennie Smith Funeral Home in Dover Thursday night, a solemn reminder that Delaware businessman and trailblazer Luke J. Harris Jr. had died at age 76 on Sept. 18. ... read more »

 Longtime residents of the Mobile community called ``Africatown USA'' recall the days when it was a beehive of activity, with Black descendants of the last slave ship to land in the United States tending gardens, running businesses and filling churches. Today, much of the place is a dilapidated landscape of empty lots and ramshackle, vacant homes. ... read more »

A house connected to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is now in the hands of a couple who plans to preserve it. ... read more »

Tree planter, Nobel Prize laureate, revolutionary: Prof. Wangari Maathai at 80 ... read more / watch video »

Members of George Floyd's family were in Los Angeles today to launch their ``Thank You Tour'' across the U.S. to show their appreciation for the millions of people who protested in 2020 to demand justice and call for an end to police brutality and racism after Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer. ... read more »

The brick foundation of one of the nation's oldest Black churches has been unearthed at Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum in Virginia that continues to reckon with its past storytelling about the country's origins and the role of Black Americans. ... read more »

Melvin Van Peebles - Wisdom | The Big Heart (2015) ... read more / watch video »

Entry to two Mississippi history museums is free Wednesday to mark the birthday of the late civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, known for saying she was ``sick and tired of being sick and tired.'' ... read more »

When you hear stories about the civil rights movement in the '50s and '60s, it mainly revolves around figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and Medgar and Myrlie Evers. But did you ever hear about Fannie Lou Hammer? ... read more / watch video »

The tipping point for Dr. Paula Braveman came when a longtime patient of hers at a community clinic in San Francisco’s Mission District slipped past the front desk and knocked on her office door to say goodbye. He wouldn’t be coming to the clinic anymore, he told her, because he could no longer afford it. ... read more »

Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with real unions that represent the interests of working-class people. Police associations do the opposite: they oppose working class people at every turn, break strikes, and bust unions. ... read more »

A Florida library is offering anti-racism kits in hopes of making it easier to broach difficult conversations about race in a meaningful way. ... read more »