2015/03/06 – Fifty years ago this weekend, a 25-year-old John Lewis was beaten so badly by Alabama state troopers that they fractured his skull. Lewis calls the Edmund Pettus Bridge — where the troopers and and a group of white men …..
2015/03/04 – The Justice Department on Wednesday released a scathing 102-page report revealing systemic racial discrimination against African-Americans at the hands of the Ferguson Police Department and city officials. After an extensive federal civil rights probe, the Justice Department found what it described …..
2015/02/23 – This weekend, millions of people of African descent in the United States and across the world commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, the internationally renowned human rights activist who was also known as Malcolm …..
Chicago police have told their version of how 17-year-old black teen Laquan McDonald died. The autopsy tells a different story. 2014/2/11-An autopsy tells a story. The genre is mystery: a narrative set in motion by a corpse. The pathologist-narrator investigates …..
2014/2/11-Near the end of the 2015 Grammy Awards, which aired on Sunday, musical icon Prince presented the Grammy for Best Album, with this preamble: “Albums still matter. Like books and Black lives, albums still matter.” In just over ten words, …..
