Chapel Hill, N.C. -- Thousands turned out Feb. 11 at a vigil on the campus of the University of North…
February 21 marks the 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of Malcolm X, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, who was gunned down by…
With the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X on Feb. 21, activists worldwide are taking time to remember…
Marking the six-month anniversary of the police murder of Michael Brown, activists held a protest Feb. 9 in New York…
Feb. 4 would have been Kevin Davis’ 45th birthday. The popular restaurant worker and beloved brother and uncle was killed…
On so-called Black Friday 2014, considered the busiest shopping day of the year one day after “Thanksgiving,” 14 Black activists pulled off…
The Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2013. It opened in 1863, and became a…
Some writers today note that an often hidden and misrepresented anti-slavery rebellion in 1811 along the German Coast in Louisiana…
Yes, slavery existed in the North, too. New York was one of the largest centers of slaveholding in the U.S.…
Part 1: How the Glenville Rebellion briefly won community control in 1968 On July 23, 1968, a gun battle between…