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 […]
Via: defendernetwork.com Thurgood,’ the one-man Broadway play starring Laurence Fishburne in his Tony-nominated performance as Thurgood Marshall, the remarkable Civil Rights lawyer and Supreme Court Justice, will debut Feb.24 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT during Black History Month, exclusively on HBO. Told in the first person by Fishburne in the role of Marshall, ‘Thurgood’ is a […]
Via: bing.com Hotels With a Past: Lorraine Hotel, Memphis, Tenn. This Memphis hotel was where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stayed during the sanitation workers’ strike in 1968 — and where he was assassinated on April 4 while standing on the balcony of room 306.
Born Rosa Louise McCauley ( 1913 – 2005 ) Via: biorgraphy.com Civil-rights activist. Born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus spurred on a city-wide boycott and helped launch nation-wide efforts to end segregation of public facilities.
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 […]
In Birmingham, Ala., in 1954, it didn’t take much for a black man to get in trouble. All Charles Patrick had to do was complain to the woman who had cut him off for a downtown parking spot. That woman happened to be the
From NYDailyNews.com: Backlash from Arizona’s new immigration law could cost the Phoenix area at least $90 million in revenue. Four major events have been canceled and others are on the brink, as calls for a boycott grow louder in protest of a law that lets cops ask people for their citizenship papers. For Phoenix, losing […]
Dorothy Height, a leading civil rights pioneer of the 1960s, died Tuesday at age 98, Howard University Hospital confirmed.
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