ATLANTA, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Lynchings in which mobs raided jailhouses to hang, torture and burn alive black men, sometimes leading to public executions in courthouse squares, occurred more often in the U.S. South than was previously known, according to a report released on Tuesday.
In October, organizers in Ferguson put out a call for people nationwide to come to the city to participate in four days of resistance to demand justice for Michael Brown, who was killed in August by police officer Darren Wilson.
Nigeria’s electoral commission has delayed the Presidential election, which was to occur this Saturday…
Spike Lee has proved once again that sometimes unconventional is the best way to go when you want something done right.
In popular memory, the individual most closely associated with the underground railroad is Harriet Tubman.
At least to a gaggle of Republicans at Texas Tech University in Lubbock who want to bar civil rights activist Angela Davis from speaking on their campus, according to Fox 34 News.
Serena Williams celebrates after a victory in her women’s singles match against Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova on day 10 of the 2015 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne Jan. 28, 2015.
In each police-related death recently dominating the headlines, authorities overreacted to black men’s behaviors as if they were life-threatening.
I love making fun of white people. I do it every day. It garners laughs, which, as a humorist, is what I want most in this world. (The thing I want second most? For white people to stop trying to pass off casseroles as real food.)
Conservative critics are in hysterics thanks to a few short remarks made by President Barack Obama on the subject of Christian history during Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast.
French President François Hollande vowed Thursday to redouble efforts to teach secularism in schools — part of his attempt to better integrate the nation’s marginalized minorities…
By Jamil Smith @JamilSmith There is a quiet scene in Ava DuVernay’s Selma that speaks powerfully to our current civil rights moment. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. takes…
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