by News Headlines | May 24, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
Outnumbered Croatian police officers said they were forced to fire warning shots into the air and ground with live ammunition when football fans returning from a match in the capital Zagreb attacked them on a highway with iron bars, bats and flares. A total of 20...
by News Headlines | May 24, 2022 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black News-Africa and Diaspora, Current News Headlines
In 1862, more than 900 enslavers living in the nation’s capital received money compensating them for the immediate emancipation of the more than 3,000 people they enslaved. The payments — averaging about $300 per enslaved person, equal to $8,587 in today’s money —...
by News Headlines | May 24, 2022 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
The San Diego Community College District on Monday canceled its upcoming investiture ceremony for Chancellor Carlos Cortez due to a controversy over the controversial positions of keynote speaker Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book, “The Color...
by News Headlines | May 24, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
Former Sen. David Perdue closed out his bid for the GOP’s nomination for governor of Georgia by seizing on comments by Democrat Stacey Abrams over the weekend with a racist retort, accusing Abrams of “demeaning her own race.” What he’s saying: “She said...
by News Headlines | May 24, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
Systemic racism in maternity care means health professionals are endangering the safety and wellbeing of hundreds of women from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, according to a new study. A year-long inquiry, carried out by pregnancy charity Birthrights, found...
by News Headlines | May 24, 2022 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
One day in June 1892, a 28-year-old Black man accused of sexually assaulting a white woman was lynched in front of a crowd of 2,000 spectators. Lynching wasn’t uncommon in post-Reconstruction America—there were over 1,100 lynchings, mostly of African Americans, in the...
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