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Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: A Bold Rebuke of Trump’s America

Kendrick Lamar performing the Super Bowl LIX Half Time Show (Screenshot). BHM Our Voices: Perspectives on the Black Experience – Stories examining the issues, injustices,...

White and Black Activists Worked Strategically in Parallel in Detroit 50 Years Ago, Fighting for Civil Rights

A member of the Michigan National Guard stands at the ready as firemen battle a blaze in Detroit in July 1967. AP Photo by Say...

Chicago’s Black Press Urges Mayor to Fire Officers With Oath Keepers Ties

By Erick Johnson of The Chicago Crusader Publishers and owners of Chicago’s Black media organizations have banded together, urging Mayor Brandon Johnson to keep his...

Black church leaders brought religion to politics in the ‘60s – but it was dramatically different from today’s White Christian nationalism

A group of teenagers marching during a civil rights rally. Bettman via Getty Images by Tobin Miller Shearer, University of Montana Fifty-eight years ago in the...

Unsung Civil Rights Hero Sarah Elizabeth Ray Finally Gets Her Due

Detroit’s Forgotten Civil Rights Pioneer  By: Lynzee Mychael. Multimedia Journalist  Amidst a class of 40, Sarah Elizabeth Ray stood out as the only African American to...

OB/GYN Doctor Sues Wayne State For Retaliation Against Speaking Out For Black Mothers

Dr. Stanley Berry, who led Wayne State University’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN) as the interim director and well as served as a...

The Women Who Stood With Martin Luther King Jr. and Sustained a Movement

Women listen during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images by Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first...

Detroiters Await Ruling on Federal Preliminary Injunction to Extend Water Shutoff Moratorium  

Not to long ago, federal Judge Denise Page Hood heard arguments in favor of a preliminary injunction to extend the temporary moratorium on water...

Power to the People: Are We Still in the Fight?   

“It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”    Frederick Douglass, a social reformer, orator and writer said those words decades ago, words...

History In Action: What Martin Luther King Jr’s Descendants Are Doing Today

Photo: Getty Images   By Zuri Anderson Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a legendary icon in the ongoing fight against racial injustice in the United States. Even though it's...

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