At just over a year into his council term—after winning election in November 2024—Mayor Webster Lincoln is now the face of a ...

“Children between 5 and 16 are considered the easiest source of cheap labor and are regularly employed in the diamond mining industry, working between six to seven days a week. Because of their small ...

The fiery H. Rap Brown, chairperson of SNCC, minister of justice for the Black Panther Party and one of the original four targets of the FBI’s infamous COINTELPRO to neutralize Black power, is ...

We don’t win by trusting this system. We win by telling the truth so loudly that it can’t operate in the dark. That’s what this piece is about. This isn’t abstract for me. Kevin Epps is my friend.

Black August adds another hero and martyr to the roll. From December 1970 to 2014, when he finally had a contact visit with his mother, Yogi was allowed to come out from behind the thick glass in the ...

July 28, 2023 – Ruchell Magee is 84 years old and has spent most of his life behind bars. Throughout his 67 years of unjust captivity, Ruchell has been one of the first and most consistent prisoners ...

A child rescuer on June 1, 1921 – with Whites out to kill them, Blacks could rely on no one but each other. – Photo courtesy of Tulsa Historical Society & Museum Black Wall Street, the name fittingly ...

The beautiful struggle of the “George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine” exhibition, which first opened in the West Bank in October of 2015, ultimately connected me with the African Palestinian ...

The Black Panther Party newspaper was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1967. The BPP newspaper was created to inform, educate and organize the people and promote the 10-Point Program and ...

H. Rap Brown, John Carlos, Harry Edwards and Stokely Carmichael hold a press conference at Howard University in Washington, D.C., about the Olympic Project for Human Rights, a boycott of the Olympics, ...

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX halftime performance was more than entertainment — it was a cultural flashpoint rich with symbolism, history and social commentary. With 133.5 million viewers, it ...

“As the social order continues, it devises other ideals of social danger, among them women. In the United States today, there are more than 90,000 women in prisons. Of that number, over 80 percent are ...