Civil Rights & Social Justice

Grieving mother seeks digital clues to uncover truth in son's suspicious death, faces backlash from insensitive strangers

The nation's first Black sorority made a splash at its 72nd Boule by inducting six luminaries in immunology, theatre, film, technology, and business.

Donations are being requested after a break-in at the Harriet Tubman Museum in Maryland left the institution down thousands of dollars.

On what would have been Assata Shakur’s 79th birthday, the Assata Shakur Memorial Committee launches a new digital archive to honor the legendary freedom fighter.

The death of 75-year-old Anita Grayson remains under review by the Allen County Prosecutor, and no cause of death has been determined as of yet. The post 75-Year-Old Black Woman Dead After Violent Altercation With White Teen Employee At Tim Hortons — Racists Online Label Her ‘Ghetto’ And Worse appeared first on MadameNoire.

Backlash over comedian's George Floyd 'joke' in Netflix roast; family appalled by insensitive remarks. The post Heartless: George Floyd’s Family Outraged Over ‘Jokes’ Told By Tony Hinchcliffe, Blames Kevin Hart For Allowing It appeared first on Bossip.

Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of resistance against oppression, deeply resonating with Black Americans' shared history of struggle.

From courtrooms to outer space, from concert halls to the halls of Congress, these extraordinary black women did not just break barriers they dismantled them, rebuilt what came after, and made the impossible inevitable for those who followed. They walked into rooms that were never designed with them in mind and left behind blueprints for […]

A dark part of Black history showed enslavers spent thousands on fancy girls, light-skinned enslaved women who served as sex laborers. The post International Day Of Remembrance — The Tragic Truth Of ‘Fancy Girls’ In U.S. Slavery appeared first on MadameNoire.

Black History Month's purpose of education and remembrance is threatened by commercialization and performative gestures, requiring commitment beyond February.

Black History Month marks 100 years, but the fight to protect Black history is far from over amid censorship and erasure.

Besides Don Lemon, federal agents arrested Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort — who went live on Facebook — and Jamael Lydell Lundy.