With two Black quarterbacks playing in Sunday’s Super Bowl LVII, many African American football fans feel they have already won. For years in the NFL and...
Dr. Carter G. Woodson, recognized as the “Father of Black History”, understood the economic inequity Black Americans faced when he was a young teenager. To supplement...
Trayvon Martin celebrated his seventeenth birthday on February 5, 2012. A few weeks later an overzealous neighborhood watch captain fatally shot the teenager. The circumstances of...
Memphis holds an historic place in the minds of Americans for its role in the push for social justice. When Dr. King was gunned down at...
Jennifer Mooney and Bryon McCauley had been friends and colleagues for years. When COVID hit and George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in 2020,...
The familiar story of police beating and killing a Black man is dominating headlines this week as the Department of Justice opened an investigation into the Memphis Police...
Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis offered more evidence of his orchestrated effort to muzzle Black voices by refusing to allow his state’s high schools to add...
Tonya McGough moved effortlessly from one call to another. “We were discussing some spreadsheets and wrapping up our conversation,” she explained as she took the latest...
The nation paused today to remember Civil Rights leader who was born January 15, 1929. Rev. Al Sharpton hosted a breakfast with President Joe Biden serving...
A new sculpture honoring Dr. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King was unveiled on Boston Commons. The couple met in Boston during their college years in the...