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By Frederick H. Lowe Stephen Bannon Stephen K. Bannon, who some black leaders called a white supremacist while lobbying against his appointment to the White House staff, today lost his job as President Donald Trump’s […]
Dick Gregory By Stacy M Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Legendary civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory died on Saturday. He was 84. Friends, family and celebrities took to social media to honor the icon […]
By Taryn Finely, huffingtonpost.com Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the Sandra Bland Act into law Thursday to address the circumstances that led to Bland’s death in July 2015. The new law mandates the county jails […]
(The Guardian) Protesters in North Carolina toppled a nearly century-old statue of a Confederate soldier on Monday at a rally against racism. Activists in Durham brought a ladder to the statue and used a rope […]
Philip Randolph Institution 48th National Education Conference was held earlier this month in Hollywood, Florida. A total of 500 plus delegates attended the conference with union members representing more than 26 different Labor Unions. The […]
A Justice Department inquiry into how race influences admissions at Harvard University has left selective colleges bracing for new scrutiny of practices that have helped boost diversity levels to new highs across the Ivy League. […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — U.S. officials have opened a civil rights investigation into the circumstances of the deadly car attack that took place amid clashes of white nationalists and counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia. One person was […]
by Daniel Arkin (NBC) Sen. Cory Booker introduced a wide-reaching bill on Tuesday that would drop the federal prohibition on marijuana and even encourage states to legalize the drug. In an announcement on Facebook Live, […]
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Mark Berman, washingtonpost.com Police leaders across the country moved quickly to distance themselves from — or to outright condemn — President Trump’s statements about “roughing up” people who’ve been arrested. […]
Derrick Johnson By Frederick H. Lowe The NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, has named Derrick Johnson, formerly the vice-chair of its board of directors, interim president and CEO, succeeding Cornell William Brooks who […]
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