Angelina Jolie calls daughter Zahara, 15, ‘an extraordinary African woman’
Angelina Jolie thinks the world of her oldest daughter, Zahara. The “Maleficent” star gushed about the 15-year-old while discussing theContinue Reading
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Rand Paul holds up anti-lynching legislation as he seeks changes to bill
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said Wednesday he is holding up popular bipartisan legislation to make lynching a federalContinue Reading
Surgeon General warns of coronavirus outbreaks from Floyd protests
US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams said to expect new outbreaks of the coronavirus resulting from the nationwide protests overContinue Reading
A white woman has apologized after calling police on a black man and saying ‘there’s an African American man threatening my life’
A white woman has apologized for calling police on a black man bird-watching in Central Park on Monday morning afterContinue Reading
Biden: ‘If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black’
Joe Biden told a popular African-American radio host Friday morning that anyone struggling to decide whether to support him or President DonaldContinue Reading
Mary Ellen Pleasant: Entrepreneur and Activist
Mary Ellen Pleasant’s exact origins are fuzzy. She may have begun her life as a slave in 1810s Georgia, butContinue Reading
The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was constructed in 1911 and, for generations of African Americans, it wasContinue Reading
All but four US states celebrate Juneteenth as a holiday
When Gov. Tom Wolf puts pen to paper later today, Pennsylvania will become the latest state to officially recognize Juneteenth,Continue Reading
