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In 1964, the marchers for civil rights and equality of African Americans sang the song that became known as the Civil Rights anthem: “We Shall…

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(1929-1968) We will be celebrating MLK Day on this Monday January 20th, but today is officially the Civil Rights leaders’s Birthday.  He would have been 85 today!!! Support keeping his dream alive by attending the Martin Luther King Jr. Parade January 20, 2014, 11 a.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE and Milwaukee Place SE, Washington […]

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On the day the nation remembered the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy‘s assassination, former ambassador and civil rights warrior Andrew Young weighed in on his…

President Barack Obama purposefully placed a bronze bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oval Office to remind him of King’s non-violent movement…

After CNN anchor Don Lemon said that Black people could help themselves by “pulling their pants up” he found himself in hot water with social…

With the continuing challenges of Black America in mind, despite our first African-American president, it’s a good time to come together. This year marks the…

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North Carolina Attorney Julius Chambers founded the first racially integrated law practice in the southern United States in 1964. Chambers served as the first African…

Debra Simmons, 55, vice-president of the Mississippi Chapter of the National Action Network (NAN), the civil rights organization founded by Rev. Al Sharpton, was violently…

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During the “This Week” roundtable’s discussion of the politics of immigration reform and the Latino vote, conservative commentator Ann Coulter made the provocative claim that “Democrats are dropping the blacks and moving on to the Hispanics,” while arguing that immigrant rights should not be considered civil rights. She added, “We don’t owe the homeless. We […]

Middle class America is vanishing and unless the nation creates an economic agenda focused on equality, it could be lost forever, according to the Rev. Jesse Jackson. SEE ALSO: Gingrich Leads With GOP, Loses With Everyone Else In order to maintain its existence, we need to expeditiously reinvigorate our economic equality. There is no time […]

Plots to suppress the African American vote date back to the Reconstruction Era. Prior to the Voter Rights Act of 1965, these were some of the more commonly used tactics by conservatives who wanted to keep blacks from voting. SEE ALSO: Why Newt Scares Me Violence In 1873, a gang of whites in Colfax, Louisiana […]

New book takes a look at life for the two women after the picture in the book, ‘Elizabeth and Hazel’ by David Margolickin. You’ve seen the picture, now you can read what occurred in the years to follow. Click here to read an exerpt. Also hot… Beyonce’s Fake Baby Bump? 11-Year-Old William McQuain’s Body Found […]