Black farmers were massacred in Elaine, Arkansas for their efforts to fight for better pay and higher cotton prices. A white mob shot at them, and the farmers returned fire in self-defense. Estimates…

Growers are calling on congressional leaders to hold the USDA accountable for ignoring the minority farmers committee.

Schlesinger Library collection offers scholars a closer look at Lani Guinier's work on voting rights, race, education, and equality.

Digable Planets became hip-hop darlings early on.

In the space of six months, she pushed back her album, suffered a health crisis, made her Broadway debut, and ended a very public relationship. Call it what you want, but she’s calling it Act III.

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Naomi Whitehead's birthday was marked by a large party that also served as a family reunion, with relatives attending from across the country.

Community Gathering this Wednesday!

In protest of Jim Crow discrimination on public transportation, Frederick Douglass and his friend, white politician James N. Buffum, boarded a Eastern Railroad Company train, in a first class car and…

Ferris State University is preparing to open a new Jim Crow Museum this week, it’s motto to “witness, understand (and) heal” from the brutality of racism.

ANTIBLACKNESS (noun) 1. that which engulfs Blackness with inescapable violence 2. a set of relations that mark and position Blackness as the nadir of sub-human or non-human qualities 3. Structural.…

BLACK POWER PRAXIS shows how four groups of activist-intellectuals—James and Grace Lee Boggs, Richard and Milton Henry, Reverend Albert Cleage, and a group of college students called Uhuru—shifted the...

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In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.

After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere

A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.