VIA PraiseAtL Evelyn Lowery, the wife of civil rights leader Joseph E. Lowery, has died. She passed away overnight in her Atlanta home. She was 88. Read more on Praise ATL.
Born in Richmond VA, Henry L. Marsh, III 1933, attended racially segregated schools as a child. He walked five miles each day to attend a one-room school near Smithfield while white student road past him on a school bus to a modern school building that had teachers for each class room. He graduated with honors […]
Dr. Dorothy Height was considered the “grande dame” of the civil rights era. She was an American administrator, educator, and social activist. She also served as president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years. Height was born in Richmond Virginia on March 24, 1912, but moved with her family to Rankin Pennsylvania […]
Martin Luther King Jr.’s monument on the Washington Mall will soon undergo a few alterations after critics ceaselessly complained that the truncated “drum major” quote changed the meaning and made the civil rights leader seem “like an arrogant twit,” says Maya Angelou.
Robert L. Carter, a federal judge who helped form the case against segregation in the historic Brown Vs. Board Of Education has died at age 94 after complications from a stroke.
Today’s words of wisdom comes from Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. Founder and President Rainbow PUSH Coalition The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years, he has played a pivotal […]
Emboldened by a successful fund drive and a pledge from the Leon Levine Foundation, the Levine Museum of the New South unveiled its revamped Cotton…
Nichelle Nichols made television history as the first African-American woman to play a role in a series in “Star Trek” as Lt. Uhura. She reprised her role in “Star Trek: The Animated Series” and the first six Star Trek movies. It was a moment that couldn’t have been scripted any better. Actress Nichelle Nichols, who […]
RADIO ONE RICHMOND AND MISS COMMUNITY CLOVIA PRESENT 3RD ANNUAL MEN’S FORUM “NOW LISTEN UP LADIES ….MEN ARE TALKING” Richmond, VA … On Saturday, June 26, 2010, “Miss Community” Clovia Lawrence, News and Community Affairs Director of the Radio One Richmond’s stations WKJS,WPZZ and WCDX and founder of the “Now Listen Up Series” will host […]
Listen to Miss Community Clovia’s interview with the Secretary of the Commonwealth on the new policies and application procedures for restoration of rights for ex-felons. If you would like to start the process of getting your rights restored join me for my 3rd annual “Now Listen Up Ladies! Men Are Talking” men’s forum on Saturday, […]
VIA BLACK CHRISTIAN NEWS A Princeton University professor says the black church is dead. Whoa. Eddie S. Glaude Jr., the William S. Tod professor of religion and chairman of the Center for African-American studies at Princeton University, posted on the Huffington Post, “(The) idea of this venerable institution as central to black life and as […]
Via: www.newsone.com // WASHINGTON — Dorothy Height, who as longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women was the leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement in the United States, died Tuesday. She was 98. Height, who continued actively speaking out into her 90s, had been at Howard University Hospital in Washington […]
