DETROIT (AP) – Harold Varner, an architect on the design team for Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum
DETROIT (AP) – Harold Varner, an architect on the design team for Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, has died at age …
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Black girls being wrongly criminalized
Nationwide, African-American girls continue to be disproportionately over-represented among girls in confinement and court-ordered residential placements.
Belafonte, Young at odds with sons of MLK
NEW YORK – Long sharing the common goal of protecting the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King III, the bond between the family of …
Andrew Young at odds with MLK’s children
NEW YORK (AP) – Long sharing the common goal of protecting the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King, the bond between the family of …
Rev. T.J. Jemison, pastor, civil rights leader, dies at 95
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – The Rev. T. J. Jemison, a longtime Louisiana pastor and civil rights leader, has died. He was 95. Jemison’s son, …
Lack of black women becomes ‘SNL’ issue
NEW YORK — Kerry Washington’s turn as host of Saturday Night Live last week gave that television institution something it hasn’t seen much lately: a …
Black shoppers accuse luxury retailers of racial profiling, frivolous detaining
NEW YORK – Barneys and Macy’s, two of the country’s top upscale department stores, are facing lawsuits over alleged racial profiling.
Tuskegee Airman dies at 93
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s last surviving Tuskegee Airman, Joseph Philip Gomer of Duluth, has died. He was 93. His daughter, Phyllis Douglass, of Claremont, Calif., …
Powell, of Motown Records, dies at 98
DETROIT — Maxine Powell, who was responsible for developing the charm, grace and style of Motown Records’ artists during the Detroit label’s 1960s heyday, died …
Civil rights pioneer Lowery
ATLANTA – Evelyn Lowery, a pioneer in civil rights and women’s empowerment and the wife of the Rev. Joseph Lowery, died Sept. 26 at her …