At the peak of the summer travel season, the Missouri State NAACP is warning African Americans to exercise caution when visiting the Show-Me State. “We hope...
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass took the podium in Rochester, New York in 1852 to ask, “What to the Slave is The Fourth of July?” TheVillageCelebration invited stage...
Police in Little Rock spent the early morning hours investigating a shooting that left 28 people injured at a downtown nightclub. As the details emerged, eyewitnesses...
By Kimathi T. Lewis Black children are drowning at a higher rate than whites in America, and a professor at the University of Memphis helped conduct...
Baby boomers often peg their coming of age to the Civil Rights Movement and the Motown sound. Alberta Momon was finishing college with a degree in...
Imagine standing on the stage in front of Simon Cowell, the famously irascible judge of shows like American Idol and America’s Got Talent. The youth of...
It’s become more and more challenging for Black police officers to remain silent when their White counterparts kill men and women of color. One of the...
Community activists and police are working to write a new narrative in Chicago, but the Fourth of July weekend didn’t help their effort. Again, as in...
Colin Kaepernick is becoming one of the nation’s best history teachers. Months ago he highlighted the racist lyrics in the national anthem. And most recently Kaepernick...
By Jonathan Clarke If ALL LIVES MATTER, the Castile videos would’ve enraged you. But, you’re silent because ALL lives truly don’t. That’s just a thing...