Category: Race

By Good Black News Staff, Good Black News The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) has made John Lewis’ unedited interview for Eyes on the Prize (1987) and for Eyes on the Prize: They Loved You Madly (1979), available to stream on its website, along with Rev. C.T. Vivian’s unedited interview for Eyes on the Prize.  Lewis’ discussions center on the voting rights movement in Selma, Alabama, […]

By Ainissa Ramirez, TIME In the 1960s, African American mothers noticed something wrong in their children’s seemingly innocent class photos. Every year, youngsters tidied up in their Sunday best for their school picture, which captured a milestone of childhood. But, after the Supreme Court desegregated schools with the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, these Black […]

Mr. Lewis, the civil rights giant who died last week, beat out a list that included Barack Obama and Cesar Chavez to have the high school, in Fairfax County, named after him. By Sandra E. Garcia, The New York Times A Virginia school district announced on Thursday that it would rename Robert E. Lee High […]

The black people I come from were owned and raped by the white people I come from. Who dares to tell me to celebrate them? By Caroline Randall Williams, The New York Times NASHVILLE — I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living testament to the rules, the practices, the causes of the Old […]

She was one of the “unofficial” slate of Black Mississippians who sought to displace the nonrepresentative all-white delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. By Sam Roberts, The New York Times Emma Sanders, one of the few surviving members of a group whose impassioned challenge to an all-white delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention brought an […]

By EJI Staff, EJI On July 18, 1863, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry — the nation’s first all-Black infantry unit — stormed South Carolina’s Fort Wagner, which guarded the Port of Charleston. Colonel Robert Shaw, their white commander, assembled 600 soldiers to wait just outside Fort Wagner’s fortified walls, then led the men over the walls […]

By Dan Lamothe, The Washington Post Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper effectively banned displays of the Confederate battle flag on U.S. military installations, saying in a memo Friday that the “flags we fly must accord with the military imperatives of good order and discipline, treating all our people with dignity and respect, and rejecting divisive […]

The league’s rhetoric conflicts with plutocrats’ political commitments. By Jemele Hill, The Atlantic Last week, the owner of the Miami Dolphins, Stephen Ross, announced that he was committing $13 million over the next four years to RISE, a nonprofit he created in 2015 to address systemic inequality and racism. “Growing up in Detroit, I saw firsthand what […]