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Ukraine’s Government has Imposed ‘Shocking’ Racism on Fleeing African Immigrants
Ukraine’s Government has Imposed ‘Shocking’ Racism on Fleeing African Immigrants […]
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Anti-Lynching Bill Passes House, Expected to Clear Senate
Named in honor of Emmett Till, the Black whose horrific murder at the hands of white men in Mississippi in 1955, the bill outlaws lynching. […]
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Gravitas Ventures Acquires Documentary, Twenty Pearls: The Story of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.”
“The story of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is not a Black story; it is an American story. Through our partnership with Gravitas, our goal is to ensure that our story is broadly told by making it more accessible to diverse audiences,” explained Dr. Glenda Baskin Glover, International President and CEO of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® and President of Tennessee State University. […]
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Black Press Salutes President Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
On Friday, February 25, President Joe Biden made Judge Jackson his choice to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer, who announced his retirement in January. “It’s because of Judge Brown Jackson’s experience in roles at all levels of the justice system, her character, and her legal brilliance that President Biden nominated her to the D.C. Circuit Court, after which she earned her third Senate confirmation,” White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates wrote in an earlier statement. […]
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Old US Highway 17 at Junction Road in Crescent City Renamed A. Phillip Randolph Highway
Pedestrians and drivers will now see the dedicated sign “A. Phillip Randolph Memorial Highway, Crescent City’s Native Son 1879-1979”. […]
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Early Voting in Broward County Begins This Saturday February 26, 2022, Through Sunday, March 6, 2022
Voters who were registered to vote by February 7, 2022, will be able to vote early in the March 8, 2022, Special General & Municipal Elections. […]
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Three killers Found Guilty of Federal Hate Crimes in the Death of Ahmaud Arbery
A jury in Brunswick, Ga., unanimously found defendants Travis McMichael, his father Greg McMichael, and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan guilty on all counts in a federal hate crimes trial. […]
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Howard University Receives $2M to digitize Black newspaper archive
The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center houses the archive, which dates to the 1970s and includes newspapers from Africa and the Caribbean. […]
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President Biden Begins Supreme Court Interview Process
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger; Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, who sits on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago; and J. Michelle Childs, a federal district court judge based in Columbia, South Carolina, are all viewed as strong candidates for the nomination. […]
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THE ONE STORY: The Movement for Reparations is Quietly Gaining Momentum, But the Fight is Far From Over
The former alderman in Evanston, Illinois, made history in 2019 when she successfully instituted a reparations program specifically geared toward her city’s Black constituents who are linked to earlier generations of racist discrimination. Simmons’ efforts have unequivocally helped bolster interest in pending legislation for a national reparations program. […]