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Gabby Thomas Sets The Track on Fire With Second-Fastest 200 Meter Dash of All Time
The 24-year-old runner’s record finish at the U.S. Olympic trials puts her behind Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 21.34 second sprint from 1988.
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Activists Follow the Example of the Freedom Riders During a Trip to Promote Rights for Black Voters
The bus trip traveled the reverse route that the original Freedom Riders took through various Southern states in the 1960s.
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Skeletal Remains Exhumed Near Tulsa Race Massacre Site Had Bullet Wounds to Head and Shoulder
Forensic researchers are investigating the site in hopes of providing proper burials for the remains of victims that are discovered.
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An Iowa County Once Named for a Slave-Owning Vice President is Now Named After a Trailblazing Black Woman
Lulu Merle Johnson was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate from the University of Iowa.
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Black WWII Veteran Finally Receives Purple Heart After Initially Being Denied Due to Racism
Ozzie Fletcher was wounded while serving in the Army. His daughter had to fight for him to be honored for his service.
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Video Shows Montreal Police Officers Kneeling on the Neck and Back of a Black Teenager
Activists, politicians and others say that the police’s actions were reminiscent of George Floyd’s murder. An investigation is pending.
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Senator Who Once Voted Against Making Juneteenth a National Holiday Gets Booed at Juneteenth Event
Really, how else did he think this was going to go for him?
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Honolulu Councilman Reposts Video of Himself in Blackface on Instagram
How many times do we have to have this discussion?
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Here We Go Again: Georgia Purges 100,000 Voters from Registration Files
An Atlanta NAACP official told a local news outlet that he’s worried about thousands of voters being wrongfully removed from the registration roll.
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South Dakota Is the Last State That Doesn't Have a Law Officially Recognizing Juneteenth as a Holiday
Lawmakers are confident that this will soon change now that Juneteenth is a federal holiday.
