Taraji P. Henson breathes rarefied air in Hollywood. She’s one of few actress who has enjoyed both mainstream success and acclaim while maintaining a devoted fan base that spans wealth, generations and geography, but is also decidedly black. She’s th ...
Posted Sunday, April 1st 2018 at 6:09PM
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Slavery might have ended on paper after the Civil War, but many white landowners did everything they could to exploit newly freed slaves well into the 20th century. Thousands of black laborers across the South were forced to work against their wi ...
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PENNSYLVANIA--In the years leading up to the Civil War, the black abolitionist William Still offered shelter to hundreds of freedom seekers as they journeyed northward. His narrow house in Philadelphia served as an important stop on the Underground R ...
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CHIGAGO--A police officer in Elgin, Illinois, a town near Chicago, shot and killed a black woman on a highway early Monday morning. Right now Illinois State Police are investigating Lt. Christian Jensen, trying understand why he killed Decynthia Clem ...
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HOUSTON--An unarmed black who was man shot dead had been walking toward police with his trousers around his ankles just moments before he was killed.
Danny Ray Thomas was fatally wounded last Thursday when an officer from the Harris County She ...
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The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan talks about the crucifixion of Jesus and the truth about Easter (Lecture From 1989). ...
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An anti-Trump rally scheduled for next month outside the White House won’t only condemn the “appalling bigotry and racism” spewed by the president, but could also shape up to be a test of African-American leaders’ support for Nation of Islam leader L ...
Posted Sunday, April 1st 2018 at 4:38PM
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Alberta Jones is the civil rights pioneer almost no one knows. She was Louisville’s first female black prosecutor and negotiated the first fight contract for Muhammad Ali, her neighbor. She registered thousands of African-American voters in the 1960s and paved the way for a ban on ...
Posted Thursday, September 28th 2017 at 8:22PM
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Archaeologists believe they have found the key to unlocking a mystery almost as old as the Great Pyramid itself: Who built the structure and how were they able to transport two-ton blocks of stone to the ancient wonder more than 4,500 years ago?
Over the years, researchers posited a number of com ...
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