By Wayne Dawkins Sixty years ago on Oct. 3, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Hart-Celler immigration reform act ...

A Performance at Interchange Theater, October 4th, 3-8pm during QWERTYFEST MKE (MILWAUKEE)—Science, art and the nostalgic sound of many hands clacking typewriter keys will be present at “Voices From ...

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) has relaunched its global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities, and implications of the transatlantic slave trade as today’s ...

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation,’” said Shawn Halifax, a cultural history interpretation coordinator at the Charleston County Park & Recreation Commission ...

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) has relaunched its global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities, and implications of the transatlantic slave trade as today’s ...

Millions of slaves in America were humiliated, beaten, and killed while black families were torn apart. Slavery was abolished in 1865 with the end of the Civil War and passing of the 13th Amendment, ...

African Americans are incarcerated at more than 5 times the rate of whites, and the imprisonment rate for African American women is twice that of white women. Nationwide, African American children ...

Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.” The United States has just five percent of ...

From the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, slavery deprived the captive of legal rights and granted the master complete power. Millions of slaves in America were humiliated, beaten, and ...

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) has relaunched its global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities, and implications of the transatlantic slave trade as today’s ...

When that playing field is levelled, I imagine a greater peace in America.” Added Je Hooper, of the American Ethical Union and the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture: “The black, brown, and beige ...

There are more black men under correctional control today than there were under slavery in 1850.” ― Singer John Legend The United States has just five percent of the world population yet holds ...