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Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, Ida B. Wells bought a first-class ticket for the ladies’ compartment on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. When the conductor […]
Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, Ida B. Wells bought a first-class ticket for the ladies’ compartment on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. When the conductor […]
Both the National Hurricane Center and the American Red Cross have developed specific guidelines for Hurricane supply kits. A hurricane survival kit is merely a specialized version of your disaster supply kit. It should include […]
Celebrate America’s Independence Day at the City of Fort Lauderdale’s 4th of July Spectacular! Fort Lauderdale was recently named in USA Today’s “10 Best: Fourth of July Fireworks Around the USA.” The Independence Day Celebration will […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) _ A team of Bethune-Cookman University students was one of only 10 presenters recently during President’s Obama’s “National Week of Making” event at the White House. B-CU participated in the weeklong event […]
DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) _ Dickinson State University is publishing online a collection of images that includes letters from President Theodore Roosevelt to cartoonist John McCutcheon and from Edith Roosevelt to writer Octave Thanet. The letters […]
Sunday’s 15th annual BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater in downtown L.A. celebrated black — well, mostly black or “Black-ish” — stars from music, television, radio, film and sports. Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson did a fine […]
They say if you want something done, get a (black) woman to do it. Just after dawn this morning, activist and North Carolina educator Bree Newsome climbed a 30-foot flag pole and snatched the Confederate flag […]
Bobbi Kristina Brown is being moved to hospice care after months in the hospital. In a statement, her aunt Pat Houston said Whitney Houston’s daughter’s “condition has continued to deteriorate” and Brown was moved to […]
Police on Thursday nabbed the 21-year-old man suspected of gunning down nine people gathered for Bible study in a Charleston, S.C., church, nearly 14 hours later and 240 miles away after an all-night manhunt. Dylann […]
NAACP chapter president in Spokane, Rachel Dolezal, who has portrayed herself as black, comes under fire when it’s revealed that she’s white and now has resigned from her post because of the controversy. The ladies […]
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