Jun 2 2018
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MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid is apologizing (once again) for inflammatory posts unearthed from her now-defunct blog, the…
May 25 2018
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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett—abolitionist, suffragist, journalist and organizer—is a legend. She is the blueprint for…
May 23 2018
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Updated: Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 4:35 a.m. EDT: The Texas Department of Public Safety has released dashcam footage…
May 21 2018
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When my 9-year-old son told me that he had been thrown out of his fourth-grade class for kneeling during the Pledge…
May 20 2018
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During a National Action Network rally Saturday in Harlem, the Rev. Al Sharpton said that the marriage between His…
May 19 2018
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As the #BlackLivesMatter movement continues to grow in strength like the perfect storm, the prescient words of…
Apr 28 2018
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Bill Cosby has finally been found guilty on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually…
Apr 27 2018
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The Rev. Kenneth Glasgow, 52, national president and founder of the Ordinary People Society, or TOPS, and a renowned…
Apr 17 2018
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Barstow, Calif., police officers fired what sounded like more than 30 bullets into a car in Walmart’s parking lot,…
Apr 16 2018
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Another day, another young woman coming forward with allegations against alleged serial predator Robert Sylvester…
Apr 15 2018
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Erica Garner—activist, organizer, writer, comrade, sister, mother and daughter—is the recipient of the 2018 Shorty…
Apr 4 2018
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. returned to Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, one day after the funeral of Larry…
Apr 3 2018
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Memphis, Tenn., exploded into chaos on March 28, 1968, as militarized police officers—armed with rifles, tear gas,…
Mar 30 2018
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Blane Salamoni—the Baton Rouge, La., police officer who killed 37-year-old Alton Sterling on July 5, 2016—has been…
Mar 28 2018
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After speaking to a rapt crowd on March 18, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. returned to Memphis, Tenn., as…
Mar 27 2018
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Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced Tuesday morning that two Baton Rouge police officers will not face…
Mar 20 2018
6
During the 1968 Memphis, Tenn., sanitation strike, there were no signs that read “I am a woman” or “I am a wife” or…
Mar 15 2018
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To the black students who walked out of schools across the country yesterday: We see you. We watched as you stood…
Mar 8 2018
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For the children of the Memphis, Tenn., sanitation strikers, the sounds, sights and smells of revolution, capitalism…
Feb 28 2018
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