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Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Joins CNN as Commentator
Bottoms shared that she applied for an internship at CNN while in college but didn’t get in.
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Where It All Began: A Black History Month 101
Carter G. Woodson launched the first Negro History Week on Feb. 7-14, 1926. This would later become Black History Month.
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White Chicago High School Teacher Fired for Using the N-Word in Class
Mary DeVoto was trying to prove a point to her world history class at Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School and she just had to use the N-word to do it.
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Father & Son McMichael Go to Trial for Federal Hate Crime Charges in Ahmaud Arbery Killing
Gregory and Travis McMichael will now go to trial for federal hate crime charges along with their neighbor William Roddie Bryan after a failed plea agreement.
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Black Italian Actress Lorena Monroe Cesarini Calls Out Racism
The actress received a slew of racist messages ahead of her appearance at the annual Sanremo music festival. So she aired them out on live television.
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Black Woman Owned Fashion Line, Jolie Noire, Lands at Target
Kim and Keyondra Lockett’s fashion line along with several other Black designers are part of Target’s Black History Month campaign, “Black Beyond Measure.”
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Tests Positive For COVID-19 in Latest Omicron Surge Through Congress
“She is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home,” the office for New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a statement.
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Lawrence Brooks, Oldest WWII Veteran Dies At 112
Brooks returned home to a Jim Crow era South in , denied his GI Bill benefits.
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Louisiana Governor Pardons Plessy, 125 Years After ‘Separate But Equal’ Ruling in Plessy v Ferguson
30-year-old mixed race shoemaker, Homer Plessy, was arrested for sitting on a whites only train car in 1897. The case made way for decades of segregation laws.
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US Authorities Arrest Suspect In Assassination of Haitian President Last Summer
A mercenary group of 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans carried out the attack at Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s private residence last July.
