Civil Rights
Jesse Jackson Jr. is not going back to Washington
The outpouring of grief following Jesse Jackson Sr.’s death wasn’t enough to help his son reclaim his seat in Congress.Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller won the Democratic primary for U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly’s seat in the 2nd Congressional District in Illinois, handing a defeat to former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr, who was trying to…
Read MoreRev. 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 MoreDocumentary shows the refusal to help Blacks during Hurricane Katrina
News media focused on looting, not Black residents being denied food, water, and shelter When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans 20 years ago on August 28, 2005, many of the city’s Black residents, especially those in the Lower 9th Ward, didn’t own cars or even know how to drive to flee the oncoming flood. The…
Read MoreTrump commuted the sentence of Gangster Disciples leader Larry Hoover
President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Larry Hoover, leader of the Gangster Disciples, a Chicago-based gang, who is in prison for murdering a rival gang member who, like himself, was involved in the illegal drug trade. Larry Hoover Jr. thanked President Trump and Ye (formerly Kanye West), a Trump backer, for advocating for his…
Read MoreNation’s only Black governor says no to reparations
The country’s only Black governor vetoed reparations for Blacks in the state…because? Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland, said he doesn’t need another commission report. He vetoed a bill that would have created a commission to study and recommend reparations for African Americans who were impacted by slavery. In a letter to Senate President Bill Ferguson, the…
Read MoreCongressional Black Caucus grows to 62 members
New York representative Yvette C. Clark will become chairman of the largest Congressional Black Causes in history with 62 members when 119th Congress convenes on January 3, 2025. Clark succeeds Representative Steven Horsford from Nevada. The caucus also will have two Black women U.S. Senators if they decide to join. They are Lisa Blunt Rochester of…
Read MorePresident Biden speaks to dignitaries at the National Slavery Museum in Angola
President Joe Biden described slavery as “our nation’s original sin — original sin — one that haunted America and casts a long shadow ever since,” during a speech before officials of the National Slavery Museum in Belas, Angola. Estimates of the number of slaves shipped from Angola range from 2 million to 6 million. Most were…
Read MoreVoters elect two Black women to the U.S. Senate
They are Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware (Left) and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland. Blunt Rochester, a congresswoman from Delaware, will be the first woman and Black senator to represent the state. Alsobrooks, a former county executive and prosecutor who beat out the state’s former Republican governor in a tight race is the first Black senator from Maryland. Both women…
Read MoreDr. Nathan Hare, the father of Black Studies, has died
Dr. Nathan Hare, the founder of “Father of Black Studies,” died Monday, June 10. He was 91. Dr. Hare was hired by San Francisco State College, now San Francisco State University, as the first program coordinator for the institution’s Black Studies program in 1968. The program was the first of its kind in the United…
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