by admindarius | Aug 7, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. Albert Woodfox, who was held in solitary confinement longer than any prisoner in U.S. history, has died at the age of 75 due to complications of COVID-19. The former...
by News Headlines | Aug 7, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
A Texas couple has filed a federal lawsuit against the police department in Rosenberg after being pulled over at gunpoint on Nov. 6, 2020, according to VICE News. Fifty-seven-year-old Regina Armstead and Michael Lewis, 67, were held at gunpoint by the police after...
by News Headlines | Aug 7, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
A demonstrator holds a sign at a rally with Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., outside the U.S. Capitol to urge the Senate to pass voting rights legislation on Wednesday, January 19, 2022. Source: Tom Williams / Getty On May 17, 1957, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a...
by News Headlines | Aug 7, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
LAFAYETTE, Ala. (CN) — The inequities between LaFayette High School and Valley High School, both in Chambers County, were evident when Dr. Travis C. Smith was a student there some 15 years ago. “My experience was great in high school,” Smith recalled....
by News Headlines | Aug 7, 2022 | Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
The University of Pennsylvania is moving ahead with the reburial of the cranial remains of at least 13 Black Philadelphians whose skulls have been kept for almost two centuries in a notorious anthropological collection used to justify white supremacy in the run-up to...
by News Headlines | Aug 6, 2022 | Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
Albert Woodfox, who was held in solitary confinement longer than any prisoner in U.S. history, has died at the age of 75 due to complications tied to COVID-19. The former Black Panther and political prisoner won his freedom six years ago after surviving over 43 years...
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