After being blasted by Dr. Martin Luther King’s daughter, Bernice King, for posting “distasteful” and “deplorable” AI images of the civil rights leader, Sexyy Red issued an apology.
In our exclusive interview, we spoke with spoken word & musical artist Tarriona 'Tank' Ball about poetry, Blackness and her partnerships with Hyatt Regency.
(AJC) — A faction of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference led by two men under criminal investigation is out and the group that opposed them is officially in control of the once-premier civil rights group, a judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling issued from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Alford Dempsey effectively places control of the […]
(Washington Informer) — Supporters commemorated the 1964 March on Washington with a rally held at Dunbar Senior High School and a five-mile march down Sixth Street, N.W. to Independence Ave. to the site where the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is being built. “Let the line stretch,” Reverend Al Sharpton, president of the National Action […]
During the fierce wars over affirmative action in the 1990s, King's words were even more shamelessly used to justify opposition to affirmative action. That was just the starting point for falsifying and then repackaging King to suit the GOP.
by Charing Ball I always wondered what Martin Luther King Jr. would have thought about the fight to legalize same-sex marriages? Many liberals and left leaning activist might argue that the famed civil rights leader would have been front and center opposing the recent attempts to ban same-sex marriages, viewing today’s battle as an extension […]
The freedom fighters of the Civil Rights era and those who came before cannot chart a new course for tomorrow. Just as the Hebrews of old needed leadership beyond Moses, so does a struggling Black community.