70 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.…

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Vice President Harris concedes

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Black men voted for Harris; White women and Latino men didn’t Vice President Kalama Harris conceded Wednesday’s election to Republican Donald Trump, who won the nation’s presidency for the second time.  “I know some of you feel sad and disappointed,” Harris told Howard University students, their parents, and others who gathered on the school’s campus,…

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Dr. Nathan Hare, the father of Black Studies, has died

Nathan Hare, Black History, 2020-Present.

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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Nazis march in Nashville, where the KKK was founded

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Nazis marched down the sidewalks in Nashville, Tennessee, in the same state where the Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1865 by Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general.  In the popular film, “Forrest Gump,†actor Tom Hanks played Forrest Gump, a distant relative of Nathan Bedford Forrest. His mother, played by actress Sally Field, gave…

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