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Jim Crow Laws During Reconstruction, Black people took on leadership roles like never before. They held public office and sought legislative changes for equality and the right to vote. In 1868, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution gave Black people equal protection under the law. In 1870, the 15th Amendment granted Black American men the […]

When World War I ended, the civil rights movement was just getting started Photo/public domain The 369th Infantry Regiment, known as “the Harlem Hellfighters,” marches up Fifth Avenue on Feb. 17, 1919. The hundreds of thousands of African Americans who served in the U.S. Army during World War I and returned home as heroes soon […]

The below is a republished version of a UC Berkeley News article from 2024. Former President Donald Trump, who is currently charged with over 90 criminal counts for attempting to overturn election results, claimed last year that the discrimination he feels he has received from the legal system is the same thing Black Americans have encountered […]

Black Lives Matter protests on June 6 Sources: Crowd Counting Consortium, Edwin Chow and New York Times analysis | Note: The Times partnered with Edwin Chow, an associate professor at Texas State University, to count the protesters based on available aerial images from June 6 and added those estimates to data from the Crowd Counting […]

Nikki Giovanni, the award-winning US poet who emerged as one of the leading voices of the 1960s Black Arts movement, has died aged 81. Giovanni died on Monday following her third cancer diagnosis, her friend, the author Renée Watson, told NPR in a statement. “We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave […]

In 1892, Anna J. Cooper wrote that the Black woman “to-day occupies, one may say, a unique position in this country,” where “she is confronted by both a woman question and a race problem, and is as yet an unknown or an unacknowledged factor in both.”[1] Across the United States, Black women found themselves largely […]

The ineffectiveness of the climate movement during the 2024 election signals its inevitable collapse. But from the rubble, a new movement dedicated to the working class can be built. In 1991, Strong Island trio, De La Soul dropped their second album on wax, “De La Soul is Dead.” Writer, Jeffery Harvey characterized the group’s sophomore […]

CNN  —  In the hours and days since it became clear that Donald Trump would be re-elected president of the United States, there’s been a surge of interest in the US for 4B. Young liberal women across TikTok and Instagram are discussing and sharing information about the South Korean feminist movement, in which straight women […]

The Uncommitted National Movement, which promised to leverage constituents’ votes to force the Democratic Party to change its position on Israel, received more than $400,000 from a Democratic-aligned PAC that explicitly prevents beneficiaries from endorsing a candidate other than Kamala Harris, Middle East Eye can reveal. Several activists and volunteers told MEE that the payments […]

California is often celebrated as a leader in the growing movement for reparations for Black Americans. In 2020, it announced its first-in-the-nation reparations taskforce, which was charged with studying the issue and making recommendations for redress. Since then, it’s inspired similar initiatives across the US. But actually implementing those reparations proposals hasn’t been as easy. […]


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