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Rep. Olumba stated that his reasons for leaving the Democratic Party include the party’s condescending treatment of Blacks and Detroiters

Today’s edition of Your Black History profiles a historic event on today’s date 47 years ago. On February 10, 1966 President Lyndon Johnson appointed Dr. Andrew Brimmer (pictured) to the Federal Reserve Bank’s Board of Governors. Brimmer was the first Black person ever to be appointed to one of the highest positions of our nation’s central bank

Detroit cop Joseph Weekley will go on trial in May for fatally shooting seven-year-old Aiyana Stanley Jones during a 2010 raid

Black agenda designed to address the myriad economic, social and political disparities that afflict the Black community

The comfort level and the acceptance of a foreigner in the Chinas are directly proportional to the skin pigmentation of that non-Chinese

The Million Dollar Black Spending Power Campaign raises the question “where is the money?” It is not reaching the Black community argue the organizers.

The song in question is a question in itself: “Is It Because I’m Black?” is the title. Johnson recorded it in 1968

The two officers who were fired as a result of the CBS interview deny that they ever threatened the Obamas

Supreme Court to determine whether a key section of the Voting Rights Act should be upheld, Justice Antonin Scalia referred to the provision as “perpetuation of racial entitlement.”

The voting rights demonstration became known as “b****y Sunday