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Her name was Nancy Green. Away from the elaborate tombs and ornate grave markers bearing the prominent names of national celebrities, Chicago’s upper class and Black elite, she has been buried for nearly 100 years somewhere in Oak Woods Cemetery in Woodlawn.

Led by Fox News, conservatives are trying to discredit the #Black LivesMatter Movement by claiming incorrectly that it is a Black hate group that encourages the killing of police officers.

Many community members have refused to accept the narrative about Bland’s suicide, and became even more irate once dash cam video of Bland being pulled over because of a minor traffic violation came to light.
“We’re doing all we can to keep Houston from becoming Ferguson,” said Bishop Dixon.

As Gulf Coast residents and policymakers celebrated the recovery of the Crescent City on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Saturday, August 29, advocacy groups challenged the narrative of a resilient and better New Orleans by launching KatrinaTruth.org, a website that shows that post-Katrina progress in New Orleans still hasn’t reached poor Black communities.

When talk of social progress turns to such sentiments as standing on the shoulders of those who came before us, we are speaking of the likes of such giants as Julian Bond, who passed away on August 15 at age 75.

As the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, civil rights groups and leaders, union representatives, elected officials, and citizens gathered at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to address the threats to voting rights today.

It’s been one year since the murder of Michael Brown galvanized the Ferguson, Mo. community and forced the nation to face the horrors of police violence. And as the activist slogan asserts, the ensuing protests have become a movement, not just a moment.

It seems that Minnesota in recent years has become the nation’s worst leader in educating kids of color. As a result, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) will hold an education town hall that will explore racial and ethnic disparities in K-12 public education as part of its 40th annual convention hosted for the first time in Minneapolis August 5-9.

A broad coalition of civil rights groups delivered more than 500,000 signed petitions to the Justice Department (DOJ), demanding that Attorney General Loretta Lynch launch a full investigation into the death of Sandra Bland and into the practices and policies of the Waller County, Texas police department and the prosecutor’s office immediately.

Last week, at the national convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) here, Chavis was participating on panel about reforming the criminal justice system with, among others, Mark V. Holden, the senior vice president and general counsel of Koch Industries, Inc.