Civil Rights
Biden issues warning about the U.S. Supreme Court
President Joe Biden walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday to commemorate the 58th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,†during which marchers were beaten, kicked and trampled by Alabama state police officers. Today the atmosphere was peaceful as more than 1,000 people joined President Biden in crossing the bridge named after a Klux Klux Klan leader.…
Read MoreNewspapers kicked the cartoon “Dibert” to the curb after calling “Blacks a hate group” and saying they are “lazy”
The comic strip “Dibert†has been dropped by 77 newspapers and counting around the country because of the racist comments by its creator, including calling Blacks a hate group. Scott Adams called Black Americans a “hate group”. He said White Americans “get the hell away from Black people” in response to a conservative organization’s poll…
Read MoreMalcolm X’s daughters sue government agencies for $100 million
Two of Malcolm X’s daughters have sued the New City Police Department, the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency, and other government agencies for $100 million, charging that they colluded with each other to kill their father, who was much more than a civil rights leader. Malcolm X pushed for more independence for Black men…
Read MoreGovernor Ron De Santis to speak to Illinois cops
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will speak Monday in Elmhurst to “Law and Order Illinois†to members of Chicago Lodge 7 of the Fraternal Orders of Police, which backs Paul Vallas for mayor of Chicago. The event in suburban Chicago is being promoted but not hosted by Lodge 7—the meeting is only for members of law…
Read MoreConfederate flag bearer gets prison time to think about what he did
A Delaware man who carried a Confederate battle flag through the Senate chamber during the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and his son were sentenced to prison Thursday. Kevin Seefried, 53, was sentenced to three years in prison followed by a year of supervised release for obstructing a joint session of Congress and…
Read MoreEdgar Daniel Nixon played a crucial role in organizing the landmark Montgomery bus boycott
Edgar Daniel Nixon, known as E. D. Nixon, was an American civil rights leader and union organizer in Alabama who played a crucial role in organizing the landmark Montgomery bus boycott there in 1955. The boycott highlighted the issues of segregation in the South, was upheld for more than a year by black residents, and nearly brought the city-owned bus system to bankruptcy.…
Read MoreDR.MARTIN LUTHER KING AND CORETTA SCOTT KING PAID FOR THE BIRTH OF ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING WINNING ACTRESS JULIA ROBERTS
Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, paid the hospital bill for the birth of Julia Roberts, who later became an Academy Award-winning actress because Roberts’ parents were broke. Julia Roberts was born in Smyrna, Georgia in 1967. And when her parents, Walter and Betty Roberts, couldn’t afford to pay the medical…
Read MoreEmmett Till’s statue stands tall
A statue honoring Emmett Till, who was murdered by Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, for whistling at, Carolyn Bryant Donham, Bryant’s wife, was beaten by the two men and thrown into the Tallahatchie River. His body was tied down by barbered wire and a metal fan. It floated to the surface three days…
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