Eight Places You Need to Visit and Understand Chicago’s Black Freedom Struggle   Go to Montgomery, Alabama today and markers ...

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...

From racial terror to literacy tests to modern-day voter suppression, efforts to silence Black political power have never stopped.

Some words may be mispronounced. After more than 200 failed attempts to outlaw lynching,” (Sen. Schumer) Congress finally passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. Signed into law by then ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif., February 27, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Douglas Emmett, Inc. (NYSE: DEI), a real estate investment trust (REIT), announced today that President and CEO Jordan L. Kaplan will be ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG-TV) — Our Pet of the Week is a 3-year-old Chihuahua/Min Pin-mix named Emmett. Emmett, a chihuahua/min pin-mix, is available for adoption. He showed up on a man’s front porch ...

cousin of Emmett Till. Till’s 1955 lynching in Mississippi, and the circumstances leading up to it, made him a figure of the early Civil Rights Movement. Till was accused of whistling at a white ...

No such incident is known to have occurred in the Twin Cities, but St. Paul came close with the near-lynching of Houston Osborne in 1895. Osborne, born in Tennessee in 1867, appears to have been a ...

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Tina Harris remembers the day her grandmother, Mary Armwood, told her about Maryland's last documented lynching victim: George Armwood. "My grandmother is Mary Armwood, and George Armwood was her ...