Black History Month

Baseball player Jackie Robinson, thegrio.com
April 15 marks the 75th anniversary of Robinson smashing Major League Baseball’s color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn…
/ April 15, 2022
Curtis Symonds is a media veteran who began his career at BET, helped make it successful, and is the co-founder…
/ April 14, 2022
A North Carolina man has been charged for harassing civil rights attorney Bakari Sellers by sending him threatening messages online. 
/ April 12, 2022
Aviator Stephen Boyd retires as the longest-serving in the Army National Guard in Massachusetts. He says his parents set the…
/ April 11, 2022
Emmett Ashford described the moment he umpired his first game in 1966 as the thrill of his life, though he…
/ April 11, 2022
The Brotherhood Sister Sol (BroSis), a non-profit social justice and youth development organization has a brand new home.
/ April 10, 2022
A quilt featuring Black pioneers of the past century from Gaston County, North Carolina is on display at the state's…
/ April 10, 2022
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's speech about her Supreme Court confirmation was a tribute to Black people who paved the way…
/ April 9, 2022
Chris Wallace and Nikole Hannah-Jones
One of the things that infuriates me about most Hollywood versions of Black history is how they cast crotchety, old…
/ April 8, 2022
The newest Supreme Court judge, Ketanji Brown Jackson will be joining a more diverse, but more conservative court.
/ April 8, 2022
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the bipartisan legislation, which expands the number of paid state holidays from 12 to 13.
/ April 7, 2022
Bridge signage wouldn't change, but the words “foot soldier” would get separate marking, including silhouette art of the historic protesters.
/ April 6, 2022