Since the first issue rolled off the press in 1971, the Westside Gazette newspaper has maintained the professional, insightful and reader sensitive reporting that has gained the trust and respect of South Florida’s African American community. […]
A group of eminent international human rights lawyers on Wednesday stated that they’ll petition the United Nations on behalf of Black refugees who’ve been discriminated against while attempting to flee Ukraine. […]
Promoting Diversity or Discrimination? […]
On Sunday March 6th, 2022, Federal, State, and local elected leaders joined with “Foot Soldiers” of the Civil Rights Movement at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to underscore a heightened commitment to restore and expand voting rights for people of color and marginalized communities in the United States. […]
On May 25, 2020, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd. Floyd’s killing was captured on video by a teenage bystander, Darnella Frazier. What resulted was worldwide attention on police brutality, the general treatment of Black people in the U.S. and a “racial reckoning” that endured conversation and financial pledges of support toward equal rights. […]
The Senate on Monday unanimously passed legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime, in a historic first that comes after more than a century of failed efforts to pass such a measure. […]
Ukrainian officials rejected the Kremlin’s unilateral proposal for evacuation corridors for civilians as an unacceptable non-starter. Most of the routes lead to Russia or its staunch ally Belarus and would require people to travel through active areas of fighting. […]
Ukraine’s Government has Imposed ‘Shocking’ Racism on Fleeing African Immigrants […]
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. […]
“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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