By BRANDON GRIGGS CNN Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has […]
Globe Newswire MEMPHIS – The National Civil Rights Museum has pivoted to present King Day: An All-Day Hybrid Celebration, Jan. 17. The National Civil Rights Museum, located at the historic Lorraine Motel where civil […]
By TODD LEOPOLD, LARRY MADOWO and JESSIE YEUNG CNN Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican cleric whose good humor, inspiring message and conscientious work for civil and human rights made him […]
By NICOLE CHAVEZ and CLAUDIA DOMINGUEZ CNN When numerous cities across America fought to remove Confederate monuments, a city in Tennessee chose to refocus attention on the contributions of Black people in the […]
By DELANO MASSEY, DANIEL SHEPHERD AND THERESA WALDROP CNN Joshua Halsey was murdered in the November 1898 massacre of Black people in Wilmington, North Carolina, by White supremacists. On Saturday, 123 years later, Halsey […]
By JEFF ZELENY CNN With two weeks remaining in the historic 2008 presidential race, Colin Powell delivered a surprise announcement: He endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama and offered words of regret to his […]
America’s first Black U.S. secretary of state, dies of COVID-19 complications amid cancer battle By DEVAN COLE CNN Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations […]
By SCOTTIE ANDREW CNN The “Harlem Hellfighters” helped the U.S. win World War I. The Black infantry unit was one of the most decorated regiments at the time, even as most of its […]
By JESSICA DULONG CNN Anna Malaika Tubbs learned she was pregnant with her first child in November 2019 while researching her first book. Already, her relationship with the stories she was uncovering about […]
By MIKE MCGEE The Dallas Examiner Dr. Melba Pattillo Beals, author of the memoirs Warriors Don’t Cry and March Forward, Girl – but perhaps better known to history as one of The Little […]
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