As the world mobilizes to safely bring home 276 Nigerian girls who were kidnapped from their school in Chibok, Nigeria on April 14, the subject…
This weekend SNL’s “Weekend Update” featured new comedy writer, Leslie Jones and her joke about being the number one slave draft pick if she were…
In the Nation’s Capital, the celebration of Emancipation Day is unique to the city but very significant. It marks the day in 1862 that President…
In Richmond, Va, there are plans to build a minor league baseball park near and on top of a historic slave burial ground and former…
Martin Bashir, left his MSNBC show after railing against Sarah Palin for her ignorant comment that compared the national debt to slavery. Check out…
In Savannah, Georgia, contractors have found artifacts that were believed to be owned by slaves from the William Miller plantation. As workers excavated the site…
Jasiri X is not your ordinary rapper. The revolutionary MC and activist is known for using his platform to raise awareness about institutionalized racism and…
Anytime you preface a statement with “this isn’t racist, but…” chances are it’s just that. Sarah Palin (pictured), who at this point serves no other purpose…
In 1781, Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman became the first African American woman to win her freedom from slavery through a court of law. The case…
*She’s back… Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin popped up at an event in Iowa and compared the federal debt to slavery. “Our free…
Few crimes raise the ire in African-Americans more than the outlawed practice of lynching. Used primarily as a tool of justice and to incite fear…
The History Channel plans to create a new version of the 1977 hit miniseries “Roots.” According to Deadline, the cable network acquired the rights to…
