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Ex-Black Panther To Be Released After 40 Years Of Solitary Confinement
A federal district court on Monday ordered the release of 68-year-old Albert Woodfox, a former Black Panther, who spent 40 years in solitary confinement after a prison riot resulted in the death of a...
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Ferguson: If Poor People Can’t Make Bail, It’s Their Fault
ST. LOUIS — When lawyers in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division investigated the operations of the Ferguson Police Department and municipal court system, they found that local officials blamed a lack of “personal...
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American Black Film Festival: Our Stories, Told Our Way
This year’s annual event returns to New York City with several hot events, including a screening of Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope and a conversation with Empire’s Taraji P. Henson....
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FREE Family-Friendly Activities for Every Day This Summer in St. Louis
We love exploring our beautiful city, especially during the summertime. From concerts and movies to festivals and tours, we’ve got you covered with 93 free things to do in St. Louis with the whole...
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Black Union Soldier Finally Honored Almost 100 Years After Death
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A runaway slave who joined the Union Army during the Civil War and lost a leg after being wounded in battle finally received recognition Sunday, nearly 100 years after he...
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Hundreds Of Protesters Chant ‘Let’s Go Swimming’ At Site Of Texas Pool Party
Hundreds of demonstrators descended in McKinney, Texas on Monday — just two days after a video that captured a police officer’s use of force against a black, female teenager went viral....
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Rings Fit for a Nubian Queen Tell a Deeper Story
Image of the Week: The royal rings for Kentake Amanishakheto may have served as part of the crown jewels worn during the initiation rites held for her son, the heir to the throne....
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Enigmatic Portraits Show Black Figures That Never Were
Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye paints, almost exclusively, portraits of black figures. More often than not, the person is juxtaposed against a black background, or at least one mired in darkness, allowing the features of the...
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99-YEAR-OLD DOREETHA DANIELS GRADUATES FROM COLLEGE OF THE CANYONS
Doreetha Daniels received her Associate of Arts diploma for Social Science at College of the Canyons...
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Here’s Everything We Know About the Pool Party in Texas
The nation has been shocked to see a viral video of black teenagers being chased and slammed into the ground by a white policeman after a pool party in McKinney, Texas....
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Michael Slager, Cop Who Fatally Shot Walter Scott In South Carolina, Indicted For Murder
A grand jury has indicted a former South Carolina police officer in the April shooting of an unarmed black man, the prosecutor announced on Monday....
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Like It’s 1999: On Serena Williams’s Dominance and the Passage of Time
It’s 1999 and Serena Williams is about to win her first U.S. Open, her first major tennis tournament. But she plays like she’s still figuring out her own body....
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Akon Launches Solar Academy That Will Supply Electricity to 600,000,000 People in Africa
The musician is giving back to people in a major way....
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Ohio Man Posts Emotional Video After He Is Badly Beaten Trying to Help His Community
Ronald Moon Jr. quit his job to restore his family home in hopes of turning it into a community center....
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Baltimore Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby Seeks To Block Release Of Freddie Gray Autopsy
June 4 (Reuters) – Baltimore’s top prosecutor plans to seek a protective order that would block the release of Freddie Gray’s autopsy report and other documents as she prosecutes police over his arrest, the...
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Why Black Women Should Still Get a Mammogram Starting at Age 40, Not 50
New federal guidelines recommending mammograms at age 50 have alarmed breast-cancer activists, who say African-American women are at higher risk at a younger age and for more-aggressive forms of cancer....
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Ala. Senate Votes to Rename Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge
The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., is renowned for the historic Selma-to-Montgomery march and the resulting police violence that came to be known as Bloody Sunday....
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Regional leaders start loan fund for minority and women contractors
When Floyd Simms founded his contracting business in 2003, he took his life’s savings and “bet it all on Simms,” he said....
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Baltimore Schools Will Give Free Meals To All Kids
Baltimore children attending public schools won’t have to go another day in class hungry thanks to a new state program....
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Tiny St. Louis County Police Force Disbands After Months Of Criticism
WELLSTON, Mo. — A tiny St. Louis County police department with a budget so tight its $12-an-hour cops had to buy their own guns was disbanded this week after a string of embarrassments....
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Slaves Who Died in 1794 Cape Town Shipwreck are Remembered
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Against a backdrop of exclusive, sea-view apartments in Cape Town, South African and American researchers on Tuesday paid tribute at the spot where slaves died when the Portuguese...
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