December 15: “Do the Funky Chicken” Artist Rufus Thomas dies, 2001
December 15, 2021
December 15: “Do the Funky Chicken” Artist Rufus Thomas dies, 2001
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- Los Angeles Rams and LAPD Spread Holiday Cheer with Annual Sleigh Ride
- Heather Hutt Sworn-in as Councilwoman for L.A.’s 10th District
- Visit Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza for Holiday Photos with Santa
- Homeless and Their Advocates Speak Out in New Film, ‘WE, the Vulnerable of LA’
- The Congressman Wore Sneakers: An Evening With Hakeem Jeffries
- Brotherhood Crusade Honors SEIU President April Verrett at 2024 Pioneer of African American Achievement Award Dinner
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- No. 18 UCLA Men’s Basketball Defeats Prairie View A&M 111-75
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- Cal, UNLV Inspire La Tijera Students at Day of Play
today in black history
December 14: After the Death of His Wife and Himself, George Washington Released the Slaves that Served him
December 14, 2021
December 14: After the Death of His Wife and Himself, George Washington Released the Slaves that Served him
Pharrell to college grads: ‘We are the emerging majority’
December 13, 2021
Grammy-winning musician Pharrell Williams on Saturday told the newest graduates of a historically Black university in Virginia to act like “the emerging majority” and help develop the area’s businesses and culture.
Rev. C. Herbert Oliver, civil rights activist, dies at 96
December 13, 2021
The Rev. C. Herbert Oliver, a civil rights activist who documented police brutality against African Americans in Alabama in the early 1960s and later fought for public school reform in New York City, has died. He was 96.
Students create slave memorial designs for Mississippi site
December 13, 2021
With only a few signs existing to memorialize the tragic events that took place at Forks of the Road in Natchez, junior and senior-level students of architecture and interior design at the University of Texas at San Antonio helped people realize the site is a far cry from reaching its full potential.
Georgia City Wrestles with Future of ‘Old South’ Restaurant
December 13, 2021
A Georgia city may soon decide what to do with a decades-old restaurant that served southern staples and lured celebrities but also used racist imagery and tropes to evoke the pre-Civil War South.
Lowe’s CEO Addresses Race, Inflation and Vaccine Mandates
December 10, 2021
Lowe’s CEO Marvin Ellison personally knows about racism. He grew up in segregated rural Tennessee. His father was a sharecropper-turned-insurance salesman and his mother was one of the first in their family to graduate from high school. Both parents taught him and his six siblings to never allow their surroundings to limit their expectations or their vision of what they could be.
December 10: the first African-American Received the Nobel Peace Prize, 1950
December 10, 2021
December 10: the first African-American Received the Nobel Peace Prize, 1950
Study Shows Police Killings in U.S. Have Been Widely Undercounted
December 9, 2021
Last summer, after the May 25, 2020 killing of George Floyd by former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, there were protests in the streets around the U.S.
December 9: The First African American Photographer to be receive a Guggenheim Honor,, born in 1919
December 9, 2021
December 9: The First African American Photographer to be receive a Guggenheim Honor,, born in 1919
December 8: NAACP filed first suit to equalize salaries for Black Teachers
December 8, 2021
December 8: NAACP filed first suit to equalize salaries for Black Teachers
University Design School Initiative Seeks Racial Justice
December 7, 2021
After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, the University of Minnesota’s College of Design launched the Design Justice Initiative, which seeks to support the retention and inclusion of Black, Indigenous and students of color through affinity spaces, policy adaptations and operational changes.
Montgomery rap artist speaks in a new way through kids’ book
December 7, 2021
There was a time during the pandemic when Jacoby Browder, a Birmingham native who grew up around Prattville, was unemployed for around seven months. Add to that the pressure of being the non-working partner in a relationship and caring for a child, and Browder found himself in a depressed state of mind.
December 7: American Contemporary Writer Richard Wright wins the Spingarn Award, 1941
December 7, 2021
December 7: American Contemporary Writer Richard Wright wins the Spingarn Award, 1941
Project Documents Black Man Banned by Mississippi University
December 6, 2021
Some University of Southern Mississippi students are working on a project to document the story of a Black man who was barred from attending the university in the 1950s.