BHM: Good Black News Celebrates Fannie Lou Hamer, Sharecropper, Senate...
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) This is Fannie Lou Hamer. A Mississippi plantation worker turned activist in the 1960s, who, from her own personal desire to claim her constitutional right...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Produce Documentary on U.S. Protests for A+E Networks...
Columnist and former NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will be executive producing Fight the Power: The Protests That Changed America with Deborah Morales for the A+E Networks History Channel, according...
View ArticleJUSTICE: Derek Chauvin Found Guilty of the Murder of George Floyd
Former police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty on all counts for the murder of George Floyd. This is an excellent day for justice and accountability. Continued love and healing to George...
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Darnella Frazier, Brave Teen Who Filmed George Floyd’s Fatal Arrest and...
Darnella Frazier, the young woman who was 17 years old when she filmed on her cell phone Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers arrest and subsequently murder George Floyd,...
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“We Will Never Forget”: Omarion, Lalah Hathaway and Kierra Sheard’s Tulsa...
It’s more than fitting that this year’s Black Music Month begins with the release of a tribute anthem honoring the legacy of Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma on the 100th anniversary of its...
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New York Artist Tanda Francis and Others Turn Plywood from Black Lives Matter...
New York’s worthless studios, a not-for-profit space for artists, organized The Plywood Protection Project last summer in the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, with the intention of making...
View ArticleStatue of Gen. Robert E. Lee Finally Removed from Richmond, VA, Former...
This morning in Richmond, VA, capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War, its top general was finally cut down. His statue, that is. Erected in 1890, a full 35 years after he surrendered at...
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MUSIC MONDAY: MLK DAY – The Ultimate Civil Rights Soundtrack (LISTEN)
by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest) Hello on this MLK Day Monday! Hope this missive finds you all well. I put together this collection of tracks to...
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Flowers to Civil Rights and Voting Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer For...
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) We celebrate grassroots organizer, civil rights and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in today’s Daily Drop podcast. Our salute to Mississippi Freedom...
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Learn about Brad Lomax, Black Panther and Disability Rights Activist Who...
[Photo credit: HolLynn D’Lil. Brad Lomax, center, next to activist Judy Heumann at a rally in 1977 at Lafayette Square in Washington.] by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today, GBN celebrates...
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