Race Matters - Page 2
Growing tired of police brutality and other injustices against Black people, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale formed the Black Panther Party on Oct. 15, 1966.
In honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, here are a few examples of things white people have "Columbused" over the years. Cultural appropriation isn't new.
As former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur turns 77, we remember why celebrating her life is so important to Black people.
After clinching the 400-meter title, 16-year-old Clara Adams was disqualified for a celebratory gesture, sparking outrage and reigniting a conversation on the policing of Black joy.
Alabama is one of several anti-DEI states that mark the first Monday of June as a state holiday in honor of Confederacy President Jefferson Davis’ birthday.
OPINION: Historian Stacey Patton responds after "Harvard University finally gave up photos of enslaved people they clung to like necrophiliacs with a fetish for Black death.."
The Louisiana Legislaturer struck down legislative maps that would have created eight new majority Black voting districts.
Affinity graduations have been a college tradition for years, but Trump's DEI crackdown has a lot of colleges backing away from the practice.
Split jury Convictions, a relic of the Jim Crow era, would have been added to a list of claims for which an incarcerated person could seek retrial.
The Trump administration's “Civil Rights Fraud Initiative” will pull federal funding from schools that offer protections or considerations for non-white, non-straight, non-cis gender students.
A student at Alameda High School in California's Bay Area made a proposal sign that used the "hard-ER" and made a reference to picking cotton.
Nottoway Plantation, Fort Branch Museum, and the Kalorama mansion are all relics to white supremacy, and white people are grieving their demise.
