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The Blank Slate Monument shows a mother and child being supported by a Union soldier and an enslaved person. (Credit: Motherland Media)

‘Blank Slate’: Monument on display at Civil Rights Memorial Center honors Black suffering, endurance and hope

Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo’s Blank Slate Monument, a statue conceived as a figurative protest to the United States’ Confederate monuments, displayed at Civil Rights Memorial Center.

Milwaukee County and City officials joined business leaders and community partners to April 7 to announce reconition for its decrease in homelessness. (via Milwaukee Independent)

Milwaukee County Recognized with Lowest Unsheltered Homeless Population in America

Efforts to combat homelesseness in Milwaukee have been recognized as successful by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

A girl in a stroller plays as a woman pushes her past a Black Lives Matter mural in the Shaw neighborhood in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

National Urban League finds State of Black America is grim

Despite recent shifts in attitudes about race, black Americans still face greater economic and health hardships compared to white Americans.

U.S. President Joe Biden congratulates Ketanji Brown Jackson moments after the U.S. Senate confirmed her to be the first Black woman to be a justice on the Supreme Court in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on April 07, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed as first Black woman Supreme Court justice in US History

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has been officially confirmed to the Supreme Court as the first Black woman justice in U.S. history after the Senate voted on Thursday.

Just six years after becoming an alderman, Cavalier Johnson is now mayor of Milwaukee. (Angela Peterson/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

After 176 Years, Milwaukee Elects First Black Mayor

Cavalier Johnson stepped in as acting mayor of Milwaukee in December, after the former Mayor Barrett left for another role. This spring election shows that citizens want him officially in the position.

Vaylasia Smith proudly holds her Awards of Excellence next to Monroe Mayor Friday Ellis

Monroe teen makes history by receiving the Congress of Future Medical Leaders Award of Excellence

Just 15, Louisiana teen Valaysia Smith received the Congress of Future Medical Leaders Award of Excellence for her hard work and aspirations.

Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump joins mourners at St. John's Baptist Church in Boynton Beach on Saturday for the funeral for Stanley Davis III. The 13-year-old died after fleeing police on his dirt bike. (© Mike Stocker / South Florida Sun-Sentinel)

Community members express anger over teen’s traffic stop death after officer faces no charges

After Stanley Davis III died during a police interaction, his family and community asked for the officer involved to be terminated. However, the investigation ended without any repercussions.

From Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter, many modern social movements decry the same inequality Dr. King did. Lawrence Bryant/Reuters

Most Black Americans Remain Left Behind by Economic Progress 54 Years after Dr. King’s Assassination

While civil rights have progressed in the 54 years since Dr. King’s life was cut short, the progress sometimes seems unbearably slow.

Michelle Materre, an early proponent of independently released works by Black female filmmakers, in an undated photo. (via Materre Family)

Michelle Materre, Champion of Black Independent Film, Dies at 67

Through her distribution company and an educational series, Ms. Michelle Materre was for decades a tireless advocate for underrepresented filmmakers.

Barbed wire and fencing (Erik Mclean/Pexels)

Interrupting Cycles of Harm, Inside and Outside Prison Walls

After spending time behind bars, Shawanna Vaughn now advocates for inmate mental health care and has even created a bill to help NY inmates.

Yolanda Renee King, granddaughter of The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., raises her fist as she speaks during the March on Washington, on the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP, File)

California panel OKs reparations limit for slave descendants

Reparations efforts at the federal level have not gone anywhere, but cities and universities are taking up the issue, such as the California Tuesday Panel.

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith at the Oscars before things got heated. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Reggie Jackson: My Problem With How The American Public Reacted To Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock

The over the top remarks about Will Smith and inconsideration of Jada Pinkett Smith’s feelings after the Oscar’s action shows the problem with the attitude of the American people.

"West Side Story" director Steven Spielberg with Rita Moreno and Ariana DeBose. (KEVIN MAZUR VIA GETTY IMAGES)

Ariana DeBose Is First Openly Queer Woman Of Color To Win An Oscar: ‘There Is A Place For Us’

Ariana DeBose Is First Openly Queer Woman Of Color to win an Oscar, and she turned visibly emotional as she acknowledged the historic significance of her win in her acceptance speech.

Brunson as Janine Teagues in “Abbott Elementary.” (Gilles Mingasson/ABC)

Quinta Brunson Knows Why America Was Ready for ‘Abbott Elementary’

New sitcom Abbott Elementary is a hit, and while it’s set in one of Philadelphia’s underfunded schools, it’s not all about race.

Eleanor Beaton had to acknowledge her heritage after experiencing racism as a child. (Eleanor Beaton)

I’m Biracial, But Rejected My Blackness For Years. Here’s Why I Stopped Passing For White.

Like many people of mixed heritage, Eleanor Beacon has leaned on her ability to pass as white to thwart racism, but she’s slowly learned to accept herself

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Senator Booker moves Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson to tears during emotional speech

“You have earned this spot. You are worthy. You are a great American,” said Sen. Cory Booker to Judge Jackson, who stands to become the first Black woman Supreme Court justice.

The Rev. David Kennedy stands outside the Echo Theater in Laurens, S.C., holding a photo of his great-great uncle's lynching. (Sarah Black Morgan / AP)

Former South Carolina KKK museum to become a diversity center

The Echo Project, spearheaded by the Rev. David Kennedy plans to turn a former KKK headquarters building, the Echo Theater, into a diversity center that educates the community about its history.

An African-American family picking cotton in a field near Savannah, Georgia in 1867 – two years after the abolition of slavery (Launey & Goebel)

Remembering When Cotton was King and Blacks Enduring Quest for Economic Justice

The economic inequalities that stem from slavery have contributed to the health dispartities experienced by the black community in the age of a pandemic.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson waits to meet with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., on Capitol Hill, March 8, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

What to watch as Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court hearings begin

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson prepares to deliver an opening statement on Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee after being nominated for the Supreme Court.

Louise Little in an undated photo. Recent literature has reframed her as a formidable and nuanced protagonist as she struggled to raise her family amid racism and harassment. (via Ilyasah Shabazz)

Overlooked No More: Louise Little, Activist and Mother of Malcolm X

Louise Little fought oppression in public and private spheres, and shaped her son’s education as he evolved into a powerful thinker and speaker.

The House on Friday passed the Crown Act, which would prohibit discrimination based on hairstyles. (Delmaine Donson / Getty Images)

House passes Crown Act banning discrimination against Black hairstyles

After passing the house, an act that would ban hair discrimination, especially against the protective and natural hairstyles commonl worn by black people, requires Senate approval on its way to becoming a law