Source: Al Drago / Getty In case anyone was wondering, President Donald Trump is still busy hiding Black history from fragile white feelings by purging it from federally controlled parks and museums, and replacing it with history that includes Black people, but is diluted for brittle Caucasian sensibilities. Back in January, the National Park Service […]
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Source: UCG / Getty In 1963, Medgar Evers made history as the first Black Mississippian to make a speech on local television when he spoke out. This should be a storied piece of Black History that’s displayed in museums, right? Well, unfortunately, that’s not the case, as it’s been six decades since the speech, and […]
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Source: Westend61 / Getty In honor of Black Music Month, I believe it is necessary to give flowers to my very favorite medium of expression: music. Coming from a musical family — and having multiple symbols of music tattooed on my skin — I know intimately that few things can capture the full spectrum of […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty Exactly one year after civil rights groups publicly declared their commitment to defending against the Trump administration’s anti-civil rights agenda, the empire struck back with politically motivated charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center. News of the Department of Justice filing charges against SPLC follows a pattern and practice of revisionist […]
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Source: Scott Heins / Getty The Montgomery Bus Boycott of 70 years ago was one of the most influential efforts of the Civil Rights Movement. However, the Montgomery Bus Boycott is not just a story of what Black people stopped doing to protest a racist policy; it is also a story of what they started […]
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Source: Lee Lockwood / Getty Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr., a civil rights leader and voting rights advocate, has died at 85. According to The New York Times, Lafayette died of a heart attack on Thursday. Lafayette was one of the key organizers during the Civil Rights Movement throughout the ‘60s. He was one of the […]
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Source: Win McNamee / Getty As we mark another Black History Month, a moment that should honor the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, we instead confront a painful truth: Donald Trump has spent the first year of his second term in office making life harder for Black families, narrowing the pathways to opportunity that […]
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Source: MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images / Getty Reverend Jesse Jackson has died. He was the architect of modern multiracial progressive politics, the man who stretched the boundaries of who America could see as presidential, and one of the last living bridges between the Civil Rights Movement and the political world we are […]
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Source: David Corio / Getty Over 40 years after his first presidential campaign and call for a Rainbow Coalition, Rev. Jesse Jackson’s transformative presidential campaigns offer a framework for sustaining opposition to extremist economic and political policies. His political challenge was as much about the presidency as it was about shifting culture and values. Through […]
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