civil-rights
What was supposed to be about The National Negro League Baseball Museum and their fundraising campaign, has been co-opted—at least briefly on Friday night, by baseball broadcaster Glen Kuiper, who used the N-word in place of “negro” for the organization’s name. He has since apologized on the air. Per The Associated Press, The National Negro […]
Malcolm X’s family has filed a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against the NYPD, state of New York, and federal agencies, alleging that the government concealed evidence in the murder of the activist. Tuesday marked 58 years since the civil rights leader’s assassination. Per ABC 17, daughters Qubilah Shabazz, age 62, and Ilyasah Shabazz, 60, appeared at a news conference alongside […]
ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith couldn’t understand why Dr. Umar Johnson, or anyone for that matter, would wish thousands of lashes upon him. “I don’t know any human being alive I would wish 50,000 lashes on,” Smith said on the latest episode of the Know Mercy podcast. “Respectfully, how low can you go? Just because I […]
Though it’s been 26 years since 2Pac’s death, many of his words still ring true. On Ari Melber’s MSNBC interview series Mavericks, Snoop Dogg reacted to powerful footage of the late rapper discussing the Black Panthers, how the organization helped Black Americans, and how Shakur used that same model to support people through music. Melber played a brief montage […]
Nearly 70 years after the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till, MGM has released the official trailer for its forthcoming biopic about Emmett’s mother Mamie Till-Mobley’s fight for justice after her son’s killing. In August 1955, Till was accused of making improper advances toward a white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, while at a market in […]
Not long after dropping her second studio album 777 earlier this year, Latto has returned with the hard-hitting new track and cat-filled video “Pussy.” The “Pussy” visual sees the rapper surrounded by some adorable cats, and was co-directed by Sara Lacombe and Latto. She announced the track earlier this week alongside a promo that showed footage from protests following […]
Less than a month after President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, making lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in U.S. history, Till’s family are calling for a renewed investigating in the 1955 killing of the Black teen. ABC News reports Emmett Till’s relatives are seeking prosecution against the white woman who set off the […]
Ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, family members of the civil rights activist organized a rally in Arizona in support of federal voting rights legislation. MLK’s eldest son, Martin Luther King III, was joined by his wife Arndrea Waters King and their 13-year-old daughter for an on-the-ground campaign for voting rights, rallying local activists and supporters […]
Bob Moses, the iconic Civil Rights leader who relentlessly fought to register black voters in Mississippi in the 1960s, passed away on Sunday in his Florida home, the New York Times reports. He was 86 years old. Raised in the Harlem River Houses housing complex, Moses attended Stuyvesant High School, a competitive school that focused heavily […]
Vernon Jordan, a civil rights leader and close adviser to powerful politicians, passed away on Monday in his Washington home. He was 85 years old. The New York Times reports that his daughter, Vickee Jordan confirmed his death in a statement. A cause of death isn’t yet known. Vernon was born on August 15, 1935 […]
