John Lewis Memorial on Digital Screen in New York’s Times Square – New York, NY / USA – July 17, 2020 (Shutterstock) By BBC Rep John Lewis, a leader in the civil rights movement and later US congressman, has died at the age of 80. Lewis was one of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders, […]
By Bomani Jones, The Undefeated Friday night, in a league whose business is Americana, Colin Kaepernick took a stand rarely seen in pro sports. It wasn’t from his seat on the sideline, where he paid no regard for the national anthem in its favorite game. It was after — when Steve Wyche of the NFL […]
Renee Montgomery, guard for the UCONN Women’s Basketball Champs on talks to the crowd at a homecoming rally held at Bradley Airport on April 8, 2009 in CT. – WINDSOR LOCKS, CT – APRIL 8 (Shutterstock) By Renee Montgomery, The Players Tribune You ever think about how history repeats itself? I called my mom a […]
U.S. Civil Rights and Human Rights Groups Say Water is a Human Right Express Solidarity with Struggle for Water Rights in Nigeria
By IBW21 February, 10, 2020, New York – The Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) released a Statement today calling for a national and international movement to declare access to water a human right that should not be subject to profiteering by corporate interests. The Statement was released against the backdrop of a rash of […]
The teen's family is from Trinidad. He said that his dreadlocks are part of his heritage and that many men in his family wear them.
By Janelle Griffith, NBC News A black teenager in Texas said he had been suspended and told he can’t walk in his high school graduation ceremony unless he cuts his dreadlocks to meet the school district’s dress code. DeAndre Arnold, a senior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, about 30 miles east […]
Letter from a Birmingham Jail 16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms […]
To watch this entire film click here. The film addresses the most urgent question of the day: how to understand, and what to do about, the threat to humanity itself posed by the Trump/Pence regime. This talk—from the most radical revolutionary on the planet—makes the case for massive, sustained nonviolent outpourings aimed at driving out […]