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The full text of President Obama’s Proclamation, dated January 29, 2016, in which he states: “During National African American History Month, we recognize these champions of justice and the sacrifices they made to bring us to this point, we honor the contributions of African Americans since our country’s beginning, and we recommit to reaching for a day when no person is judged by anything but the content of their character.”
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The Justice Department is preparing to release roughly 6,000 inmates from federal prisons starting at the end of this month as part of an effort to ease overcrowding and roll back the harsh penalties given to nonviolent drug offenders .
Read More >A lawsuit filed against New Orleans criminal district court alleges that it runs a “scheme” in which the poor are jailed if they fall behind paying fines. “The extent to which every actor in the local New Orleans legal system depends on this money for their own survival is shocking,” said Alec Karakatsanis, a founder of Equal Justice Under Law, a civil rights group, and one of the lawyers who filed the suit….
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This is the story of one of the largest rebellions by enslaved Africans in American history. It is also the story of historiography–how the past is researched, viewed, and written about.
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The War on Drugs that began in the 1980s has led to an explosive mass incarceration of African Americans. This exhibit examines how and why.
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ABHM Head Griot Reggie Jackson is interviewed about the origins of the devaluation of black lives in America. His four-session series covers a 400-year history of the laws, court decisions, customs, pseudo-science, medicine, policing, and other practices that justify and support that attitude that black lives do not matter.
Read More >Will Brown, a meatpacking industry worker, was lynched in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1919 for allegedly raping a white woman. The riot of white men leading to his lynching was a response to the new competition for jobs posed by black workers for the first time. Omaha’s was just one of many murderous riots that took place during the “Red Summer of 1919” in some three dozen cities around the country. The photo of this spectacle lynching is one of the most famous.
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New York State invited the families of 12 families of victims of the Attica assault for a memorial service and to return personal belongings.
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Mandela’s confidants and country have been receptive to a new film depicting his life produced by Anant Singh.
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One lawyer fights for those who cannot afford representation and would otherwise be vulnerable to a racist criminal justice system.
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