On Friday, March 6, the country will continue to bid farewell to Civil Rights humanitarian and minister, Reverend Jesse L. Jackson at the House of Hope. Additional speakers and performers […]
Tag: civil rights
Posted inEntertainment
The Getty unveils new exhibit for Black History Month
Photography played critical roles in both the civil rights and Black Arts movements. Across the United States and internationally, artists of the African diaspora utilized photographs as a means of […]
Posted inNews, obituary
H. Rap Brown’s legacy
Black revolutionary Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, known as H. Rap Brown until he converted to Islam while in federal prison in the 1970s, died at the age of 82 on Nov. […]
Posted inFeature, Feature
‘A Promise Kept’: California establishes Reparations Agency
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed Senate Bill (SB) 518, landmark legislation creating California’s Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery — the first state agency in the nation dedicated to implementing […]
Posted inNational, News
It is Black Music Month “Lift Every Voice and Sing!”
African-American heritage is complex. There are deep, dark valleys – the middle passage, slavery and segregation. And then there are many hills and mountains proclaiming the heights Blacks have reached […]
Posted inGuest Opinions, Local
Media campaigns, issues and Black folks
If you live in California and watch television at any point in time, one can’t help but notice the number of political ads you have seen for a particular set […]
Posted inAcross Black America
Bid considered to wipe arrest records of MLK, Rosa Parks in Alabama
The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean nearly 70 years after she protested racial segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to […]