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As Wall Street collapsed the United States was faced with the threat of yet another social and political crisis which could have prompted a national uprising against capitalism African American History Month Series No. 5 During October 1929, the United States economic system was plunged into an unprecedented depression where…

For the first time since the end of reconstruction and the beginning of the black codes, the first generation that are born with fewer rights, born with fewer rights, than their parents, they are grandparents, their great grandparents, and i think that all of us who really understand and know everything, that martin luther king junior and coretta scott king worked for, should be very troubling. we believe laws should lift us all up, not limits of. so, really, its this generations turn, our turn,...

More than 100 years later, the legacy of Maggie Lena Walker still remains a catalyst for economic advancement in the Black community.

The African American has trod a stony road to be accepted, to reach equality in society, in the law, in exercising the rights guaranteed as citizens of this great democracy.

Kentucky resisted the end of slavery, refusing to certify the 13th Amendment at the time and only freeing people six months after June 19, 1865, the day celebrated as the

On this day that we honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we have a sterling new opportunity to commit ourselves to his work,..

We must dismantle systems of advocacy that rank marginalized people and tie people’s value to their labor productivity.

People get hurt when you have congressional leaders making the wrong decisions. that happened in 1859. also happen after the civil war when the republican party made in a moral compromise with the democrats saying, it was almost a tie between rutherford hayes and his opponent for president and republican leaders said to the democrats, if you lattes be president, we will stop reconstruction. the result of that was that conditions were almost as bad for black americans in some cases worse than the...

Florida's gun permitting legislation has its roots in the racist Jim Crow Era and should be tossed into history's dustbin with a new constitutional carry law, argues the Florida state director of Gun Owners of America.

For our commentator, the new plan to start the Democratic presidential primary season in South Carolina, in order to give Black voters more say, is but another step in a longtime fight for equity.