Civil Rights

NEW YORK — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan elicited a collective gasp from an audience at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention today when he revealed that less than two percent of the nation’s schoolteachers were Black and male. “And we wonder why our boys are struggling,” Duncan said. “We need more Latino […]

The National Action Network kicked off its 20th anniversary celebration today with an impassioned speech by president and founder Rev. Al Sharpton, who told a packed room of over 200 attendees that his convention isn’t about speeches. “This is a working convention,” Sharpton said. “This is why it’s called the National Action Network; not the […]

Los Angeles, California– Almena Lomax, a civil rights activist and founder of the Los Angeles Tribune died March 25th at 95 years old.

An editorial in this week’s New York Amsterdam News, the legendary Black newspaper of New York, highlights the rise of Rev. Al Sharpton’s storied civil rights organization The National Action Network, which will celebrate its 20th year of operation April 6-9 at their national convention in New York City. Related: NewsOne Columnist Rev. Al Sharpton […]

Wilmington, North Carolina- The Black Newspaper Publishers are seeking pardon for a group of 10 civil rights activists who spent almost a decade in prison for allegedly burning down a white-owned business in 1971. PARTNER LINK: Juliette Lewis Photos Convicted of arson and conspiracy, the “Wilmington Ten” were exonerated in 1980 after Amnesty International took […]

Alabama — Last summer, African-American man Worcy Crawford passed away at the age of 92. If you are unfamiliar with the name, you aren’t the only one. With his passing, a civil rights story of epic proportions went untold. When people think of buses and the civil rights era, they think of Rosa Parks. But […]

WASHINGTON — Labor unions at the heart of a burning national disagreement over the cost of public employees want to frame the debate as a civil rights issue, an effort that may draw more sympathy to public workers being blamed for busting state budgets with generous pensions.

Roland Martin talks with filmmaker Keith Beauchamp about his new series launching on the Investigation Discovery channel entitled “The Injustice Files.” The series will focus on cold cases from the civil rights era, “The Injustice Files” airs Friday at 9 p.m. EST on Investigation Discovery.

It’s always interesting talking to American youth, especially African-Americans, who are quick to suggest that the “old ways of doing things” — like marches, rallies, protests and boycotts — have no effect on changing public policy today. Maybe someone should tell that to the people in Egypt, who brought the 30-year regime of Hosni Mubarak […]

Every idiot likes to speculate on what the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. would be thinking or doing if he were alive today so I figured, why should I be any different? So here’s what I think: Dr. King would be married to a white woman and living in Africa if he were alive […]

Mississippi-  Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour drew mixed reactions from analysts on Wednesday for his decision to push for a civil rights museum for his state ahead of a possible presidential bid.

ATLANTA — Stanley Nelson writes for a small weekly newspaper in the Louisiana delta. For the past four years, he has been obsessed with one story: who threw gasoline into a rural shoe repair and dry goods shop in 1964 and started a fire that killed Frank Morris?