I’ve spent my entire career as a civil rights activist and anti-violence advocate. I hear from folks all over the country about how fed-up they…
If you ask most people who sang the best rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner” at the Super Bowl, most will tell you Whitney Houston…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have heard about how difficult it has been for folks down in Atlanta over the last few…
The Ohio State University will make history today. The Columbus Dispatch reports the acclaimed university will officially name Dr. Michael Drake its new president later this morning. The 64-year-old ophthalmologist was previously the Chancellor of the University of California in Irvine. He held the position since 2005. Prior to being the Chancellor at UC Irvine, Drake was the vice […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — By the time the U.S. Supreme Court refused a last-minute request to stay the execution of Herbert Smulls, the Missouri inmate…
For many of us the assassination of NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is merely a chapter in our Civil Rights history books. It’s a clip in the countless civil rights documentaries we’ve watched in history classes. For Evers’ widow and daughter, that moment plays over-and-over in their minds. “It never stops,” Evers’ daughter Reena said. […]
