Racism Alive And Well: Glenn Beck Says NAACP Is A ‘Joke’
Glenn Beck is know for his witty banter and conservative views, so it comes as no surprise that he had a few thoughts on the IRS political targeting scandal,and the NAACP on his radio show. He bluntly called the NAACP a “joke” and an “affront” to legendary civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr., Booker T. Washington, and [...]
Alabama Pardons Scottsboro Boys 82 Years After Injustice
Eighty-two years ago, all-white juries in Alabama imposed the death sentence on eight black teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women, setting the stage for a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Now, the Scottsboro boys are poised to be pardoned. Jeremy King, a spokesman for Alabama Governor Robert Bentley, said he expects the bill [...]
Scottsboro Boys Are To Receive Postumous Pardon
The moment for true justice has finally come. The Scottsboro boys is the name given to a group of nine black teens at the time, who were wrongfully convicted of rape. This conviction occurred over 80 years ago and has stained the reputation of Alabama’s just system every since. Well now they are set to [...]
Civil Rights Activists “Wilmington 10″ Pardoned, Forty Years After Their Conviction
Forty years after they were wrongfully convicted for firebombing a grocery store in Wilmington, N.C., the civil rights activists who became known as the Wilmington 10 were pardoned by outgoing Gov. Beverly Perdue on Monday. The NAACP had close ties to the case, and not just because its former head, Benjamin Chavis, was among the [...]
US Postal Service Issues Limited Edition Stamp To Mark 150th Anniversary Of The Emancipation Proclamation
The U.S. Postal Service marked the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation by issuing a limited edition stamp that will go on sale Wednesday at post offices nationwide, NBC Washington reports. The stamp was unveiled at the National Archives, where the original Emancipation Proclamation is on display through 5 p.m. Tuesday, the final day of [...]
Origins of the “Night Watch” and Celebrating The 150th Anniversary of The Emancipation Proclamation
Black Methodists and Baptists celebrate Watch Night, December 31, 1862: the Emancipation Proclamation would go into effect at midnight. This is why the celebration continues in African American churches today, striking a more joyous note than prior penitential Watch Nights. ————— Celebrate 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation on New Year’s Eve [...]
Amazing Photographs Of Former Slaves Taken Seventy Years After The Emancipation Proclamation
In the 1920s and 1930s, an interest in slave narratives was rekindled, and as part of the Federal Writers’ Project of the Work Progress Administration, more than 2,000 first-person accounts of slavery were collected, as well as 500 black and white photographs. The collection was compiled in 17 states between 1936 and 1938. Many of [...]
Mississippi Teen Sentenced to Life for ‘Hate Crime’
Jackson, Miss. Deryl Dedmon, 19, pleaded guilty to murder Wednesday in connection with the death of James Craig Anderson, who was run down by a pickup truck last year in what prosecutors had called a hate crime. Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Jeff Weill sentenced Dedmon to two life sentences under Mississippi’s hate crime statute. [...]
Seller of “Re-Nig” Campaign Sticker Says It’s Not Meant to be Racist | Your Black World
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Your Black WorldPaula Smith, owner of the company Stickatude.com, says that the anti-Obama campaign sticker that says “Don’t Re-Nig 2012″ isn’t racist. During an interview with Forbes.com, Smith innocently claims that the bumper sticker was not a reference to the president’s ethnicity, and was simply meant to say that [...]
Finally Memphis Steps Up,Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street
Forty-four years ago civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Now nearly half a century later, the city of Memphis will finally rename the one-mile stretch of Linden Avenue to Dr. M.L. King Jr. on the anniversary, April 4, of his [...]
Lanier W. Phillips, Civil Rights Activist, Dies at the Age of 88
Lanier W. Phillips, a prominent civil rights activist who was so deathly afraid of white people that he wouldn’t look them in the eye until he was saved by a group of them in 1942, died Sunday at age 88 in a retirement home in Gulfport, Mississippi. The great grandson of a Georgia slave, Phillips story is a [...]
Meet Harvard’s First Black Graduate
President Barack Obama may be Harvard’s most famous graduate and the first to lead its Law Review. But more than 140 years ago, another black man by the name of Richard T. Greener became the first black person to earn a diploma from the esteemed Ivy League school, elev8 reports. Documents proving this fact [...]
10 Facts You May Not Know about the TV Show, “Good Times”
Good Times was that show that all of us knew better than we know our own relatives. Most of us can sing the theme song even without knowing all the words, and if I were to walk into a room and say the words “d**n, d**n, d**n!” you would know EXACTLY what scene I was [...]
Michelle Alexander’s ‘New Jim Crow’ Raises The Debate On Drug Laws
Garry McCarthy, a 30-year veteran of law enforcement, did not expect to hear anything too startling when he appeared at a conference on drug policy organized last year by an African-American minister in Newark, where he was the police director. But then a law professor named Michelle Alexander took the stage and delivered an [...]
13-Yr Old Allegedly Persecuted by Teachers for “Radical” Essay on Frederick Douglass
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” Frederick Douglass On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the [...]