Grace Lee Boggs - a champion for civil rights, labor rights, feminism, and the Black Power movement - has died.
On August 9, 2014, seeing the lifeless body of Michael Brown Jr. laid out in the blistering heat for four and half hours on Twitter…
An amended lawsuit has been filed against a Pennsylvania prison and its medical personnel for refusing Hepatitis C treatment to political prisoner and former Black…
Besides being a psychopath in summer film ‘The Perfect Guy’ with Morris Chestnut and Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy is set to have a new role as Civil Rights activist Dr. Gilbert Mason. The Golden Globe-nominated actor will star in “A Civil Right.” Dr. Gilbert Mason was the President of the Mississippi NAACP for three years […]
Greg Carr associate professor and chair of African-American Studies at Howard University, Lisa Page, acting Director of Creative Writing at George Washington University, Armstrong Williams and educator Johnnetta B.…
It’s a sad time in the literary world. Controversial poet and author Amiri Baraka died yesterday in a Newark, New Jersey hospital. Baraka, whose real…
(From CNN) Dorothy Height, a leading civil rights pioneer of the 1960s, died Tuesday at age 98, Howard University Hospital confirmed.
