Tag: Martin Luther King Jr.
Josephine Baker Honored at France’s Pantheon
Josephine Baker — the U.S.-born entertainer, anti-Nazi spy and civil rights activist — was inducted into France's Pantheon on Tuesday, becoming the first Black...
Homer Plessy, key to ‘separate but equal,’ on road to pardon
By Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press
A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a “whites-only" railroad car to...
Bid Considered to Wipe Alabama Arrest Records of King, Parks
By Jay Reeves, Associated Press
The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean after nearly 70 years after she...
Jennifer Hudson Plays Her Idol Aretha Franklin in ‘Respect’
By Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press
Jennifer Hudson was fresh off her Oscar win for “Dreamgirls” when she was summoned to meet Aretha Franklin in 2007....
COMMENTARY: Always Right to Fight!
After the horrific murders of some of our Asian sisters in Georgia, the press started asking whether or not the Black community would align with them to stop the senseless racist attacks against them spurred on by Trump and his merry band of White Supremacists. It was devastating to me to read many of the social media responses and sickening to hear them among friends and family.
