GEORGE FLOYD’S MURDER: 8 MINUTES AND 46 SECONDS
Oakland Institute: "Today millions of Americans are rising up, collectively expressing outrage, and demanding an end to racism and violence against Black and Brown communities." Photo: YouTube George…
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NAACP HONORS LEGACY OF CIVIL RIGHTS ICON REV. JOSEPH LOWERY
NAACP CEO Johnson: “We can think of no better way of celebrating his legacy than continuing to fight and make sure we—as Black people—are counted. On behalf of…
BAYARD RUSTIN SPEECH: “NEGRO REVOLUTION IN 1965”
"The Negro movement is, in fact, revolutionary, in not its objective but its method and its demand. And the tragedy of the society, today, is that it is…
MEDGAR EVERS: “WHAT THEN DOES THE NEGRO WANT?”
Medgar Evers: "The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home." Photo:…
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS CELEBRATES FORMER CONGRESSMAN JOHN CONYERS THE “CONSCIENCE OF THE CONGRESS”
"Just four days after the assassination of Dr. King, Congressman Conyers introduced a bill to create a federal holiday in his honor and reintroduced the bill every year…
FANNIE LOU HAMER’S SPEECH AT 1964 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: BLACKS FACE POLICE VIOLENCE TRYING TO VOTE
Fannie Lou Hamer, in 1964: "I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with…
Remembering dr. King, Why The Civil Rights Struggle Continues — Jumaane Williams
Dr. King had the Herculean task of trying to pull President Johnson and the United States a little into the 20th century. Photo: Wikimediacommons Today we honor the…
Simeon Booker Defined Peerless Journalism
Simeon Booker. Image-YouTube This is how the journalist Simeon Booker described an account of the Civil Rights Movement: "Glaring down at us from the truck were five white…
“Fake News”? Without Courageous Media Civil Rights Progress Would Have been Delayed
Pioneering journalist Ida B. Wells. Source: YouTube Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., knew the power of media and once observed: "The brutality with which officials would have quelled…
What Books Are Your Children Reading This Summer: Diversity in Knowledge Sources
One Crazy Summer Do your children love the books on their summer reading lists? Are your children reading about diverse cultures and books that reflect their experience or…