Leader, scholar, writer, and acclaimed civil rights hero, Julian Bond, has passed away.
Roland Martin, host of “NewsOne Now” was in Selma, AL for theĀ Selma 50th Anniversary Jubilee commemoration. While on location,Ā MartinĀ recorded a special commentary questioning if Generation…
President Barack Obama has always admiredĀ the Civil Rights Movement. The White House is adorned with artwork depicting the struggles of the 60s. He mentions itĀ in…
One of the Civil Rights Movement‘s most notable figures has come forward blasting recent claims that then-President Lyndon B. Johnson spearheaded the idea behind the…
President Obama has proposed a new $50 million plan to restore the historic SouthernĀ sites of the civil rights movement. The proposal is incredibly fitting as…
EightĀ of the little known, but historic group of men, theĀ Friendship 9, had their convictions dismissedĀ today by South Carolina judge, Mark Hayes. The momentous decision took…
Two years ago, I had the opportunity to meet with Congressman John Lewis in his Capitol Hill office. I listened intently as he recounted…
“Selma,” the film about the marches in the Alabama city during 1965, opened in theaters today and should be at the top of your list…
The controversy over Lil Wayneās lyrics on the remix to Futureās āKarate Chopā seems far from over. Emmett Tillās family expressed outrage Weezyās explicit line, ābeat that p*ssy up like Emmett Till, leading Epic Records to announce that is doing everything in its power to get the song taken down. Epic also said the song […]
A funeral is set for 11 a.m. Thursday for U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Perry, a giant of a civil rights lawyer who toiled relentlessly to dismantle legal segregation in South Carolina and then went on to become the state’s first black federal judge. Perry died of natural causes Friday just days before his 90th […]
Civil Rights pioneer Dorothy Height died Tuesday at age 98. Height, who had been chair and president emerita of the National Council of Negro Women, worked alongside civil rights pioneers, including Martin Luther King Jr., future U.S. Rep. John Lewis and A. Philip Randolph.
