KRITICAL RACE THEORY

Pinkney, lived an extraordinary life for a kid who grew up under humble circumstances on the Southside of Chicago in the 1930s and 40s.

Back on July 17, 1944, something truly tragic happened. Imagine being at the munitions facility in Port Chicago, California, just 35 miles north of San Francisco. Now, this wasn't your regular work shift. Black Navy personnel units were GIVEN THE JOB OF loading munitions, and they were doing it around the clock – a dangerous job, no doubt.

IT AS BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT UKRAINIANS COULD BE GETTING OUR SOCIAL SECURITY.

Mississippi has been found in violation of the U.S. Constitution's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment by a federal appeals court panel. The panel, in a split decision on Friday, ruled that the state's practice of permanently revoking voting rights from individuals convicted of certain felonies goes against constitutional principles.

Montgomery police Chief Darryl Albert said 13 people were taken into custody Saturday for and all released pending further investigation.

Rapper Busta Rhymes celebrated a significant achievement at the BET Awards by sharing a relevant message with his fellow artists

What if, on that fateful night of February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin didn't meet a tragic end at the hands of George Zimmerman? What if he survived the encounter that sparked nationwide outrage and became a symbol of the fight against racial injustice?

Basketball legend Charles Barkley intends to update his will with the aim of promoting greater diversity at his alma mater, Auburn University. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2023 Fortune 500 list features a record-breaking presence of eight Black CEOs. ACCORDING TO THE COMPANY’S WEBSITE…ITS the highest number since the list's inception in 1955. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Jamaican population in the United States has remained stable over the past decade, but Florida has now overtaken New York as the state with the largest Jamaican population.

93-year-old JOSEPHINE WRIGHT…OF Hilton Head NORTH CAROLINA says developers are trying to force her to sell her land by using harassment and what she calls a “frivolous lawsuit.”

n January 1817 nearly 3,000 African American men met at the Bethel A.M.E. Church (popularly known as Mother Bethel AME) in Philadelphia and denounced the American Colonization Society’s plan to resettle free blacks in West Africa. This gathering was the first black mass protest meeting in the United States.

Nat Turner's Rebellion, also known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia.

Medgar Evers is one of the most important Civil Rights activists in American history. He fought against Jim Crow, was the NAACP's first field officer in Mississippi AND spearheaded investigations into some of America's most egregious racial crimes.

Details around the 1969 police shooting of Fred Hampton and other Black Panther members took decades to come to light.

In 1971, President Richard Nixon started increasing size of drug controlling agencies and inflicting harsh penalties such as mandatory sentencing and arrests without warrants. He also enacted the Controlled Substances Act, as well as establishing the DEA.

Marlon Dewitt Green was an African-American pilot whose landmark United States Supreme Court decision in 1963 helped dismantle racial discrimination in the American passenger airline industry

When lawmakers began drafting the GI Bill in 1944, some Southern Democrats feared that returning Black veterans would use public sympathy for veterans to advocate against Jim Crow laws. To make sure the GI Bill largely benefited white people, the southern Democrats drew on tactics they had previously used to ensure that the New Deal helped as few Black people as possible.