Posts Tagged ‘Civil Rights’
Kim Kardashian West, J. Cole Bring Attention to the Julius Jones Case in Oklahoma as Execution Date Nears
Kim Kardashian West said she is waiting to see if Oklahoma’s Governor Stitt will stop Thursday’s execution.
Read MoreMissouri judge exonerates Kevin Strickland after serving 43 years for wrongful conviction
Strickland, 62, has always maintained that he was home watching television and had nothing to do with the killings, which happened when he was 18 years old.
Read MoreTexas school investigating after White student attacks Black teacher in viral video
A White student slapped a Black teacher and threw a phone in her direction while cursing and yelling obscenities.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Judicial Inquiry Begins in Eric Garner Case, 7 Years After His Death
Former NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo has already been disciplined, but some think more public officials should be reprimanded for their role in Garner’s case.
Read MoreCivil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up bus seat, seeks to expunge record
Colvin’s legal team told CNN it plans to file paperwork to have the now-82-year-old woman’s 1955 arrest record cleared.
Read More10-Year-Old Black Girl Handcuffed and Arrested for ‘Offensive’ Drawing of Her School Bully
The ACLU claims the girl was handcuffed with excessive force in front of her classmates and officers wouldn’t let her speak to her mother.
Read MoreNFL, Players Agree to End ‘Race Norming’ in $1B Concussion Settlement
against Black players, and now it appears we have our answer. The landmark settlement will also revisit prior claims and adjust those findings accordingly.
Read MoreRevamped Harambee building honors neighborhood philanthropists Reuben and Mildred Harpole
The new Bader Philanthropies building in Milwaukee was named the Harpole Building in honor of Reuben and Mildred Harpole, a fair housing advocate, civil rights activist and benefactress of multiple causes.
Read MoreAlabama spends more than a half-million dollars a year on a Confederate memorial. Black historical sites struggle to keep their doors open.
By Emmanuel Felton, The Washington Post MOUNTAIN CREEK, Ala. — Down a country road, past a collection of ramshackle mobile homes, sits a 102-acre “shrine to the honor of Alabama’s citizens of the Confederacy.” The state’s Confederate Memorial Park is a sprawling complex, home to a small museum and two well-manicured cemeteries with neat rows…
Read More‘We Can Not Forget’: Miami-Dade County Renames ‘Dixie Highway’ to Honor Harriet Tubman
The Harriet Tubman Highway in South Florida has been unveiled after many county workers and a very determined teenager called for the removal of the road’s previous problematic “Dixie Highway” title.
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