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Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was Killed
According to an early 1968 Harris Poll, the man whose half-century of martyrdom we celebrate this week died with a public disapproval rating of ne...
George Zimmerman sues family of Trayvon Martin, publisher, prosecutors for $100 million
George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted of homicide charges in the 2012 fatal shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin ...
Rosa Parks honored with a statue in Montgomery, Alabama
Rosa Parks was honored with a new statue in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, on Sunday, 64 years to the day she was arrested for refusing to move to ...
COLIN KAEPERNICK’S LAWYER SAYS TWO TEAMS ARE INTERESTED IN SIGNING HIM
When it comes to Colin Kaepernick, attorney Mark Geragos has a history of making predictions that don’t come to fruition. Geragos, on Tuesday, mad...
Twitter loses it over 'historical flex' after Detroit native,Chan Cozy, posts throwback photo with Rosa Parks
Well, it's time to add “historical flex” to your vocab arsenal because one West Side Detroit native just broke the internet with a single tweet.Tw...
Should Indigenous People’s Day replace Columbus Day as a federal holiday?
When Grand Forks, North Dakota, replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day in July, Courtney Davis Souvannasacd brought her son, Benjamin,...
Montgomery, Alabama, Elects Its First Black Mayor
Montgomery has elected Steven Reed to become the Alabama capital’s first Black mayor, a landmark in a city known for heroic stands and violent cla...
The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students
In the summer of 1955, administrators at the University of Texas at Austin had a problem: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education dec...
Congress Hears From Eric Garner’s Mother, 5 Years After Police Killed Her Son
Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, sat before Congress on Thursday and relived the death of her son at the hands of police, as part of a hearin...
Bucks Player Sterling Brown Not Willing to Just Accept $400k Settlement, Wants City to Admit Wrongdoing
An attorney for Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown called the city’s $400,000 offer to settle his civil rights lawsuit “not sufficient” and adde...
'Denied work for 889 days': Colin Kaepernick says he's set on NFL return
Colin Kaepernick hasn’t had a job in the NFL since the end of the 2016 season. This will be his third season watching from his living room couch i...
New Emmett Till Memorial Will Be Made Bulletproof, Group Says
A new historical marker honoring Emmett Till will reportedly be bulletproof and protected by security, following national outrage over a photo of ...