News From A Colorful Perspective
Montgomery, Ala., a city known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement, just elected its first Black mayor, Judge Steven Reed. Montgomery is a majority-black city but had been one of three cities with a population over 100,000 in the Deep South that had never elected a Black mayor,…
Alan Maloney, the racist wrestling referee who cut a young Black wrestler’s locs before a match, has been suspended from refereeing matches for two years. On Wednesday, the New Jersey Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJIAA) and The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (NJDCR) announced the “punishment” rendered upon Maloney via…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Trump is urging the Supreme Court to rule against workplace discrimination protections for transgender people. The DOJ submitted a brief to the Supreme Court on Aug. 16 asking the justices rule that Title VII, which protects employees from discrimination on the basis of…
A photo of two mounted white Galveston, Texas police officers leading a handcuffed Black man with a rope evoked imagery of Antebellum-era slave catchers for many, sparking an outrage last week that led the Galveston Police Chief to issue a public apology to the suspect, Donald Neely, and his family….
If the United States government were a company and President Trump an employer, his tweet in which he told four congresswomen of color to “go back” to their home countries would constitute as workplace discrimination. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) were…
Civil rights activist Unita Blackwell, the first Black woman to become mayor in Mississippi, has died at age 86. Her son, Jeremiah Blackwell Jr., announced her death on Monday. She passed away at Ocean Springs Hospital in Biloxi after years of suffering from dementia. Blackwell was a native of Lula,…
Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is finally getting some of the recognition that he deserves. The home of the assassinated leader has been declared a national monument. “It will always be the home that Medgar Evers and I lived, loved and reared our children in until he was shot in…
Tuesday was Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and next Monday is our national celebration of the civil rights icon. But school field trips, celebrations, families’ visits to teach children about civil rights and the values of all people being created equally are being canceled due to President Trump’s government shutdown….
David Steven Bell, a 51-year-old white man at the Asheville Mall in Asheville, N.C., punched a Black girl in the face over the weekend. He was charged Saturday night with assault of a female under the age of 12. He could face up to 450 days in jail, if convicted….
Over 1,000 people were in attendance at Boutwell Memorial Auditorium in Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday to mourn Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. and demand justice regarding his police-related death. Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. accompanied the family and delivered the eulogy. “Say,” Jackson instructed the mourners, “We will have the tape…
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