by October Gallery
Aside from doing nothing in response to mass shootings, one of America’s favorite pastimes is touting the virtues of tolerance, diversity, and inclusion. This is a melting pot after all,…
Chance the Rapper and his wife have a love story for the ages. The Grammy winner (né Chancelor Johnathan Bennett) and his love, Kirsten Corley Bennett — who married last…
At the white-hot center of retroactivity doctrine and federal/state jurisdiction roils an oral argument that may or may not have something to do with sentencing juveniles to life without parole.…
A Christian seminary in Virginia has announced it is setting aside $1.7 million in an endowment fund to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves who were forced to work…
Those who missed Aretha Franklin’s documentary “Amazing Grace” when it debuted in theaters last spring will get another opportunity to see it at one of the free screenings offered during…
Black men in Alabama were racially profiled and made criminals by a group of racist police. According to the Henry County Report, the incidents occurred in Dothan, Alabama where at…
Born in 1912, Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was the youngest of fifteen children born to tenant farmers in Kansas. Frustrated by the limits to his education imposed by segregation,…
Duane Pierfax grew up after World War II in Pacoima, one of the few Los Angeles suburbs that offered the American dream of home ownership to African Americans who had…
Dr. Angela Davis has agreed to accept the 2019 Fred L. Shuttlesworth Award from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, says BCRI President/CEO Andrea Taylor. “Looking ahead, the Birmingham Civil Rights…
In recent years, Charleston-area historic sites have dramatically increased their interpretation of slavery and its vital role in the area’s early history. And some visitors have pushed back, uneasy with…