Tag: Activism
‘Hatred In The Eyes’: How Racist Rage Animated Jan. 6 Riots
Rep. Cori Bush is no stranger to protests. She spent years marching the streets of St. Louis and Ferguson, Missouri, rising to public office...
‘A way we resist’: Quilts honor victims of racial violence
By Leah Willingham, Associated Press/Report for America
Long after he was killed, Myrtle Green-Burton wouldn't let anyone wear her 17-year-old son's high school track team...
Rosetta Perry, ‘Queen Mother’ of the Black Press
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
For 30 years, the Tennessee Tribune and its publisher Rosetta Miller-Perry have set the standard for...
“Colin in Black and White” Premieres
The Associated Press
Colin Kaepernick and TV and movie maker Ava DuVernay are the co-creators of Netflix’s “Colin in Black and White,” a six-episode, half-hour...
Action Fund Joins Knight Foundation to Create Sojourner Truth Memorial
NNPA Newswire
Sojourner Truth delivered what has come to be known as her greatest speech on May 29, 1851, at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention...
