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There is always a pioneer. In American politics in the last decades of the 20th century, Jesse Jackson, preacher, civil right leader and lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr,...
Imagine opening a history textbook and not seeing the faces of key contributors to America's story. Every February, America observes Black History Month. It started in 1926 as Negro...
Civil rights advocates condemned the sheriff's department in Jacksonville, Florida, after a video of officers punching a Black man and throwing him to the ground during a February traffic...
Halle Berry has said the time since her historic Oscars win in 2002 for Monster’s Ball has “forced” her to accept the “system is not really designed for” for...
Jenice Armstrong, Tribune News Service I’m stumped. It’s been a week since everyone watching the first presidential debate heard it, and I’ll admit, I’m still baffled: What exactly is...
The American Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1865 between the Northern states, which wanted to end Black slavery and the Southern states which wanted to continue with...
egina Lawless hit a professional high at 40, becoming the first director of diversity and inclusion for Instagram. But after her husband died suddenly in 2021, she pondered whether...
Beth Kowitt, Tribune News Service After the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, corporate America undertook a collective virtue signaling. Many of the companies that were already making...
A Black man who died after he was hit by a police SUV in Mississippi was buried in a pauper's cemetery without his family's knowledge, even though his state...
Brian Williams, Tribune News Service On a recent Friday night my wife and I watched in stunned confusion as a man in a pickup truck tried to intimidate our...
