“This archive is a national treasure and one of tremendous importance to the telling of Black history in America.”
Video Shows White Men Violently Yanking Bike From Black Children They Accused Of Stealing It
Delphia Robinson said her son was also called racial slurs. . Video footage recently posted on social media showed a group of grown white men terrorizing Black children over a bike in a scene that further demonstrated the disturbing trend of criminalizing of Black youth.
JPMorgan Chase Invests $1.5 Million to Aid National Urban League’s Mission to Create Black Wealth
Aimed at building wealth accumulation for black Americans, JPMorgan Chase is committing $1.5 million over the next two years to the National Urban League (NUL) to help make that happen.
10 Richest African Americans In Congress
Each year since 1990, Roll Call has reviewed the financial disclosures of all U.S. senators, representatives, and delegates to determine the wealthiest members of Congress. According to a statement on Roll Call’s site, estimating each politician’s net worth involves “examining the finances of members of Congress since 1990 by combing through their annual financial disclosure…
Frantz Fanon’s Daughter to Michigan Prisons: Take ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ Off the Banned Book List
The Michigan state prison system has banned Frantz Fanon’s seminal race theory book “Black Skin, White Masks” from its libraries. Here’s how legal experts and his daughter, Mireille Fanon-Mendès, are fighting to get the classic back into prisoners’ hands.
‘Your Heritage Is Taken Away’: The Closing of 3 Historically Black Colleges
Since the 1930s, the women of Bennett College, one of the nation’s two historically black colleges for women, have dressed in white and sung their “Preference Song” over an annual breakfast. They wave white linen napkins in the air, cheering “dear old Bennett College,” and welcome incoming freshmen. The main quad of Bennett College.Credit Jeremy…
