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Rev. Jesse Jackson has died
Rev. Jesse Jackson, an icon of the civil rights movement, a top aide to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and a two-time U.S. presidential candidate, has died following a misunderstood illness. He was 84. His death was disclosed on Feb. 17. Rev. Jackson was suffering from a brain disorder, according to an article published…
Read MoreHas a Black man solved the mysterious disappearance of former Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa
Michael Yarbough went to Detroit’s Renaissance Center to look for a job on July 30, 1975, because his sister told him Clean America, an employment agency, was hiring. He made a wrong turn inside the building and witnessed Jimmy Hoffa, former president of the Teamsters Union, being murdered and buried in concrete. A man saw…
Read MoreTrump depicted President Obama and the First Lady Michelle Obama as apes during Black History Month
President Trump posted a video of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes, which is an outrageous and often well-received depiction of Black people. The depiction of Black people during Black History Month as apes has been a long-standing trope used to justify slavery, racial segregation, and racial hatred. I am certain many Whites, Asians, Hispanics, and some Blacks believe they were descended from apes.Trump knows his audience.A…
Read More70 years after his execution, he was found not guilty
Tommy Lee Walker was only 19 when he was executed in the electric chair for a murder and rape he didn’t commit. He was posthumously exonerated 70 years later by the Dallas County Commissioners Court on Wednesday. Exoneration refers to the reversal of a wrongful conviction, often due to new evidence or the discovery of flaws in the original conviction process. Walker died when he was strapped to the electric chair after police charged him with murdering and raping.…
Read MoreNick Reiner has been charged with murdering his parents
The District office in Los Angeles on Tuesday charged Nick Reiner, the son of movie director and actor Rob Reiner, and his wife, photographer Michele Singer Reiner, with two counts of first-degree murder in the brutal deaths of his parents, said Nathan Hochman, the Los Angeles District attorney. A jury would decide whether Nick, who…
Read MoreState Supreme Court denies new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court in September 2024 denied Mumia Abu-Jamal’s sixth petition to reverse his 1982 conviction for the alleged murder of a Philadelphia police officer after a judge ordered the District Attorney’s office to release all files related to Mumia’s arrest and conviction. A request to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for permission to appeal…
Read MoreCop acquitted in the murder of pregnant Black woman
An Ohio jury of eight women and four men acquitted a policeman of murdering a pregnant woman and killing her unborn child, due this month, after shooting her in a supermarket parking lot for shoplifting $600 worth of liquor. The verdict set off jubilation for the cop, Connor Grubb, who smiled after the verdict was…
Read MoreLast survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, died at 111 years old on November 24, surrounded by family in a Tulsa hospital. Fletcher was just 7 years old during the attack that destroyed Tulsa’s prosperous Black Wall Street; her memoir recounts the terror and devastation she witnessed. She spent her life…
Read MoreH. Rap Brown has died
H. Rap Brown, also known as Jamil Abdulllah Al-Amin, one of the most charismatic leaders of the Black Power Movement, died Sunday in the Federal Medical Center in North Carolina. He was 82. He was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s, and he later served as the Black Panther Party‘s Minister…
Read MoreRev. Jesse Jackson has a brain injury
Jesse Jackson sufferming brain disorder.
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