In January, Sarah Reed was found dead in her cell at Holloway prison. She had been the victim of a notorious police brutality case in 2012 and suffered mental health issues known to prison officers, doctors, social workers, lawyers and police. So why ...
Posted Friday, March 11th 2016 at 6:21PM
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CHICAGO—In an exclusive Final Call interview, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam responded to false reports that he has supported Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2016 at 9:45AM
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MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA--Relatives, friends and former classmates crowded a funeral service Saturday for a 58-year-old black man who authorities say was shot and killed by a white Montgomery police officer.
The mourners paid homage to Gregory Gunn, wh ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2016 at 9:35AM
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If the walls could talk, imagine what they’d say.
They’d reminisce about family meals, holidays, celebrations and romance, take sides in arguments, and watch children grow. If those walls could talk, they’d tell of triumph, disappointment, ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2016 at 9:25AM
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Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born into a musical family on 9 August 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of gospel star Cissy Houston, cousin of singing star Dionne Warwick and goddaughter of soul legend Aretha Franklin.
She began singing i ...
Posted Thursday, February 11th 2016 at 5:00PM
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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was a labor union organized by African American employees of the Pullman Company in August 1925 and led by A. Philip Randolph and Milton P. Webster. Over the next twelve years, the BSCP fought a three-fr ...
Posted Thursday, February 11th 2016 at 4:47PM
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In 1781, Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman became the first African-American woman to win her freedom from slavery through a court of law. The case was held in Massachusetts, which coincidentally, became the first state in the Union to abolish slavery; ...
Posted Wednesday, February 10th 2016 at 9:22PM
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In 1970, Cheryl Adrienne Brown was the first African-American woman to compete in the Miss America pageant.
Born in New York City, to a Port Authority officer and a hospital clinic manager, she grew up in Queens with three brothers. Brown studied ...
Posted Wednesday, February 10th 2016 at 9:16PM
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"Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) was the first Black Army nurse. She tended to an all Black army troop named the First South Carolina Volunteers, 33rd Regiment, where her husband served, for four years during the Civil War. Despite her service, like ma ...
Posted Tuesday, February 2nd 2016 at 4:47PM
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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson (January 4, 1890 – September 10, 1976) was an American educator. He served as the first black president of Howard University, from 1926 until 1960.
Johnson received his B.A. from Morehouse College in 1911, and second bac ...
Posted Tuesday, February 2nd 2016 at 4:45PM
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Google’s honoring of Frederick Douglass through a doodle on its search page Monday highlights one of America's most prominent abolitionists.
Douglass’ life story and his oral and literary work still stand as defining items in the saga of slave ...
Posted Monday, February 1st 2016 at 6:31PM
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The case of a former Ku Klux Klan leader convicted of killing a 16-year-old black girl with a crossbow is being reviewed by the North Carolina Parole Commission, according to the Charlotte Observer.
Russell Hinson, the “Exalted Cyclops” leader ...
Posted Sunday, January 31st 2016 at 4:02PM
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