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Rev. Joseph Lowery, longtime civil right leader, and icon dies at age 98
Civil Rights icon and one of Atlanta’s most revered citizens, Rev. Joseph Lowery passes at age 98.
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Ohio County releases prisoners most vulnerable to COVID-19
Earlier this week the ACLU called on prisons and detention centers throughout the U.S. to release high-risk and elderly inmates.
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Louisiana church arsonist pleads guilty
Holden Matthews plead guilty to burning down three historically African American churches in rural Louisiana.
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Black woman dies in parking lot when urgent care delayed
Community and family members are questioning the death of Tashonna Ward, a Black woman, who checked into Froedtert Hospital with chest pains/ She was sent to a waiting room instead of urgent care.
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Oakland homeless mothers evicted by cops gone wild
Homeless mothers were forcibly forced out of a vacant house by officers carrying assault rifles.
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Both parents of Atatiana Jefferson pass after she was shot by cop
Yolanda Carr, the mother of Atatiana Jefferson who was shot and killed by a Fort Worth, Texas police officer, has died.
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Civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis announces cancer pancreatic diagnosis
Rep. John Lewis announced on the last week of 2019 that he has been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer.
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Mass graves from ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre detected in Tulsa
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, scientists have revealed that they have found inconsistencies and irregularities in the city’s grounds that indicate the location of mass graves of Black victims of the 1921 Tulsa/Greenwood massacre
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Iconic photo goes viral
It has been said that a picture speaks a thousand words. The photo above of Black medical students at Tulane University posing in front of a former slave plantation in Wallace, Louisiana has captured the attention of the nation partly because it sits in stark contrast to the place Africans held in America 400 years […]
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Lawsuit threatens right to protest
One of the most important First Amendment cases in decades is on the docket to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court next month.
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Blacks serving longer sentences in state prisons
The racial disparity between Black and White people sent to state prisons is declining, but criminal justice researchers say people of all races still aren’t treated equally.
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Serena Williams builds schools in Jamaica, Africa
Tennis megastar Serena Williams is going the extra mile in her philanthropic efforts to help those in
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Three Baltimore men exonerated after nearly four decades in prison
Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart were released and exonerated after spending 36 years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit.
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Rosa Parks honored with statute in Montgomery
Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks was recently honored with a statue in Montgomery, Alabama.
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African American GIs of WWII: Fighting for democracy abroad and at home
When war broke out, Black Americans fought in segregated units to serve their country. The breath of freedom they experienced in Europe flamed the fight for equality when they returned home.
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Groundbreaking for expanded African American Civil War Museum prepares D.C. corridor for influx of visitors
A groundbreaking in the nation’s Capital took place Oct. 17 for a monumental $45 million expansion of a facility to honor Black veterans of the Civil War.
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IN MEMORIAM: Congressman Elijah Cummings Dies at 68
Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD-7), a titan in the U.S. Congress, died early Thursday morning. He was 68.
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Reparations are essential to eliminate the wealth gap between black and white Americans
This racial wealth gap is a result not only of the horrors of slavery but also policies – such as Jim Crow laws, redlining and modern-day mass incarceration – that followed.
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Black union conference draws Black stars to Bloomington
With the theme ‘What’s Going on?’, APRI will hold its 50th annual National Education Conference at in Bloomington Aug. 7-11.