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.

I am,” Toni Morrison replied. Now, at the outset of 1986, the novelist was about to debut her first full-length play. This ...

Helen Widen, age 91, died in her home on Saturday, March 1, 2025. Early life She was born in Minnesota on May 15, 1933 to Samuel and Celia Frank. She grew ...

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 ...

We're really at the nadir of African American experience since slavery. KARLOS HILL, HISTORIAN: Lynching is the primary form of enforcing and reinforcing white supremacy. There is nothing that ...

Jamshedpur: East Singhbhum district police on Monday launched awareness drive to sensitise villagers about the criminal offence and legal punishment associated with lynching. The villagers were ...

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 ...

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In 2020, she received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. Two years later, the Emmitt Till Antilynching Act finally passed, identifying lynching as a federal hate crime offense. The bill was named after a 14 ...