Perhaps the most seminal image from America’s Civil Rights era is the black and white photo of the preeminent figure of the movement, Martin Luther King Jr. sprawled across the […]
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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 inEntertainment, Feature, Feature
Nichelle Nichols ‘boldly went’ where no one had before
“Last night, my mother, Nichelle Nichols, succumbed to natural causes and passed away.” —Kyle Johnson, on his mother’s official Facebook page (https://uhura.com) July 31. Science fiction, “SF,” “Sci-Fi”, or speculative […]
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Defaming his name: Martin Luther King Day, 2022
“Give us the ballot (Yes), and we will no longer plead to the federal government for passage of an anti-lynching law; we will by the power of our vote write […]
Posted inCovers
Defaming his name: Martin Luther King Day, 2022
“Give us the ballot (Yes), and we will no longer plead to the federal government for passage of an anti-lynching law; we will by the power of our vote write […]
Posted inOpinion, Practical Politics
The youth politics of challenging Black leaders of HBCUs
It’s still news that Black folks prefer to keep inside problems, well, inside. Youth used to be regularly taught to keep family business to themselves, and not put such business […]
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 […]