Black History Month

Lawyers for Muhammad Aziz, who spent two decades in prison for Malcolm X's 1965 murder, filed a civil rights lawsuit…
/ July 15, 2022
The white woman who accused Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 says she…
/ July 15, 2022
Tulsa race massacre
People who believe they are descendants of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre can give genetic material to help…
/ July 14, 2022
Gregory Robinson took over as program director of a long-stalled NASA project that had cost nearly $8 billion — and…
/ July 12, 2022
mary mcleod bethune statue
Statues of Blacks in other parts of the Capitol honor Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and Rosa…
/ July 12, 2022
Civil rights
A podcast spearhead by Derrick Alridge shares the stories of more than 300 educators in South Carolina during the Civil…
/ July 12, 2022
The descendants of the enslaved people aboard the Clotilda held a ceremony in Africa Town, Alabama, to mark the anniversary of…
/ July 11, 2022
Area artists feel cheated since Wesley Wofford was commissioned outright without officials requesting sketches or ideas from others.
/ July 11, 2022
Morrow, the inventive son of Alabama sharecroppers, died late last month at his home in San Diego of pneumonia. He…
/ July 8, 2022
A 54-year-old Republican from Decatur, Holder White has sat on the bench for 21 years, beginning as an associate circuit…
/ July 8, 2022
Historically known as predominantly white towns that forbade African Americans from being out past dark, sundown towns are still a…
/ July 6, 2022
We celebrate white Juneteenth with a long-overdue response to the (fake) Willie Lynch Letter, explaining the invention of whiteness.
/ July 5, 2022