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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – BLM protest officer-involved shooting at Virginia Beach Oceanfront
Black Lives Matter 757 held a protest Saturday night regarding the recent officer-involved shooting and death of Donovon Lynch at the Virginia Beach oceanfront.
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Forensic pathologist rules Andre Hill’s death was a homicide caused by multiple gunshot wounds
An Ohio coroner’s office ruled this week that Andre Hill, who was fatally shot by a former Columbus police officer, died of multiple gunshot wounds and that his manner of death was homicide.
Georgia G.O.P. Fires Opening Shot in Fight to Limit Voting
Georgia pushes voter restrictions as a desperate and unethical grip for Republican political power.
Chicago Suburb Shapes Reparations for Black Residents: ‘It Is the Start’
Officials in Evanston, Ill., are weighing how to distribute $10 million in reparations to those who suffered housing discrimination.
Maryland college dedicates new memorial in effort to confront legacy of slavery
With the dedication of the Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland, one small public liberal arts college will be making a big statement about confronting its association with slavery and encourages other educational institutions to grapple with their own uncomfortable legacies.
California Becomes First State in America to Approve Statewide High School Ethnic Studies Curriculum
California leads the country by implementing ethnic studies education programs in their high schools.
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Nashville advocates press for change after two police shootings
The Nashville Organized for Action and Hope’s criminal justice task force held a press conference to address two police shootings in Nashville.
To Help Black Developers, Programs Start With Access to Capital
Many large American banks have given out loans to African-American developers with the hope of increase Black-owned real estate.
Relief bill is most significant legislation for Black farmers since Civil Rights Act, experts say
$5 billion will go to farmers of color, who have lost 90 percent of their land over the past century because of systemic discrimination and a cycle of debt.
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Minneapolis to pay George Floyd’s family $27m in police custody death lawsuit
City agrees to settle civil lawsuit with George Floyd’s family during jury selection for trial of Derek Chauvin, former police officer charged with murder.
Forget Dr. Seuss And Cancel Culture – The Real GOP Agenda Is Rolling Back Voting
This article covers how Republicans try to prevent black people from voting in order to stay in power.
Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne: A Masterclass in racism
Audre Lorde once said, “Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity”… The recent actions of Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne demonstrate nothing has changed.
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Black Lives Matter Launches relief fund for Black people during pandemic
As Congress delays in passing COVID-19 relief legislation, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) and BLM Grassroots unveiled a $3 million, nationwide fund to assist Black people who are struggling financially during the pandemic.
Help Wanted: Social Media Manager for ABHM, Part-time
ABHM seeks a part-time Consultant as Social Media Manager to promote the mission and vision of ABHM through a web-based environment and social media. Supports audience engagement strategies through effective message-driven content development for a variety of social media platforms to help promote the work of ABHM.
Paul Gosar Spoke At A White Nationalist Conference. The GOP Doesn’t Care.
An active congressman recently spoke at a White Nationalist conference, seemingly without a blink of an eye on behalf of the U.S. Government.
Black Spirituals as Poetry and Resistance
Poetry created by by African-American’s documents the history of oppressions and death Black people for century have endured.
Vernon Jordan, Civil Rights Leader and D.C. Power Broker, Dies at 85
Vernon Jordan, an influential civil rights leader and political power broker, died at the age of 85. He leaves a legacy of progress and change.
How Negro History Week Became Black History Month and Why It Matters Now
Historians must “rewrite the history of the United States through the lens of Black history, … if you don’t make that case, there are [false] stories that will expand and go toward rationalizing and perpetuating racism, exclusion, marginalization and more.”
COVID Black is using data and creating space to honor Black lives lost to virus
Kim Gallon creates a digital space, COVID Black, to memorialize each individual Black life that has been lost in the pandemic. COVID Black is intended to be a space of healing and create conversations about the future of Black health.
We Sure Aren’t Living in a Post-Racial World: U.N. Head Says White Supremacy a ‘Transnational Threat’
Throughout its history, the United States has embraced its addiction to white supremacy and continues to export it to the rest of the world.
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Police deployed potentially lethal chemical during Black Lives Matter protests
Even if federal agents and police never again fill the streets with clouds of toxic zinc chloride, the consequences of its prolific deployment may haunt cities for many years to come.