All posts tagged "civil rights"
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Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield in the Talks to Star in Film about Black Panther Party Leader Fred Hampton
Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield are being considered to star in the upcoming film, Jesus is My Homeboy, a film about Black Panther Party activist…
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Google Doodle Celebrates Black Chemist Percy Lavon Julian’s Birthday
Today, Google salutes pioneering chemist Percy Lavon Julian with a Google doodle on what would have been his 115th birthday. Julian was born on April…
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Family Of Malcolm X Sues To Prevent Publication Of His Diary
The family of Malcolm X launched a lawsuit to stop the publication of a diary of the late civil-rights leader’s last year. With papers filed…
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Nevada Lawmaker Says He Would Vote For Slavery
Nevada assemblyman Jim Wheeler told a crowd in Storey County, “Yeah, I would” vote for slavery. During the event, which took place in August, Wheeler stated to…
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Alabama Senior Citizens Finally Have High School Prom 50 Years Later
The class of 1963 crowded in a rectangle on the dance floor, the memories of high school fresh on their minds as the band played…
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Rosa Parks Statue Unveiled at Capitol
President Barack Obama and congressional leaders unveiled a full-length statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks in the Capitol Wednesday, paying tribute to a figure…
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Mississippi Officially Abolishes Slavery, Ratifies 13th Amendment
Two medical school colleagues, one an immigrant from India, the other a life-long Mississippian, joined forces to resolve a historical oversight that until this month…
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Bibles Used by MLK, Lincoln Chosen for Obama Inauguration
Bibles used by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and former President Abraham Lincoln have been selected for President Barack Obama’s public swearing-in, the President…
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Ole Miss Crowns First Black Homecoming Queen
Fifty years ago, James Meredith became the first black student at the University of Mississippi. Today, Courtney Roxanne Pearson has become the first African-American homecoming…
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Off-Duty Black Cop Shot 28 Times By White Officers, Sentenced To 40 Years In Prison
Former Chicago police officer Howard Morgan, who was shot 28 times by white officers while he was off duty in 2005, was sentenced to 40…
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George Zimmerman to Be Charged in Trayvon Martin’s Death
A Florida special prosecutor has decided to charge neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, sources told ABC…
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White Mississippi Teen Gets Life Sentence In Black Man’s Death
A white Mississippi teenager pleaded guilty on Wednesday to fatally running over a man with a truck because he was black, and received a life…
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In Wake Of Trayvon Martin’s Death, America Is Soul-Searching
Spurred by social media and community rallies, the shooting death of a 17-year-old Florida youth has become the latest flashpoint over how young black men…
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Lawsuit Alleges African Americans Were Barred From Serving On A Jury
The Equal Justice Initiative says it has filed a civil rights lawsuit claiming that District Attorney Douglas Valeska illegally excluded qualified African Americans from serving…
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25 Percent Of African Americans Don’t Have Voting ID
A few weeks ago, an elderly, 96-year-old Tennessee woman was denied the right to vote. She was African American. With the 2012 elections approaching, and…
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LDF Intervenes for NAACP and African-American Voters in Florida Voting Rights Case
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed a motion seeking to intervene in a lawsuit on behalf of the Florida State Conference of the NAACP…
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Civil Rights Organizations Settle Hurricane Katrina Housing Discrimination Case
African-American homeowners and two civil rights organizations announced a settlement in a post-Hurricane Katrina housing discrimination lawsuit brought against the U.S. Department of Housing and…
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MLK Parade Pipe Bomb: Race Connection ‘Inescapable’, FBI Says
Federal investigators are looking at race as a possible motive in the attempted bombing of a Martin Luther King Day parade in Spokane, Wash., as…
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Malcolm X’s assassin freed from prison 45 years after killing
Malcolm X’s assassin has been freed from prison 45 years after gunning down the former Nation of Islam leader, New York officials have announced. Thomas…
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Gillette Civil Rights MLB Weekend returns in May
Willie Mays, Billie Jean King and Harry Belafonte will receive MLB Beacon Awards, former congressman and U.S. ambassador Andrew Young will deliver the luncheon keynote…
