Medgar Evers Addresses Nation on TV

Remembering Medgar Evers' Quest For Racial Equality

Medgar Evers was killed in the driveway of his home by a Ku Klux Klan member who lived free for…
by D.L. Chandler
10.01.21
Medgar Evers Addresses Nation on TV

Republicans Take Credit For Medgar Evers National Monument

Mississippi’s governor came under fire for ignoring a Black congressman’s years of effort to help establish a national monument to…
by NewsOne Staff
03.28.20
2017 Stephan Weiss Apple Awards

‘You Embody What Makes America Great:’ Clinton Tells…

Hillary Clinton delivered the commencement speech for Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn Thursday, blasting Trump and his policies.
by Clarissa Hamlin
06.08.17
OP-ED James Baldwin

‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Doc Gives Baldwin’s…

A new documentary about James Baldwin, the late activist-writer, highlights America’s disappointing progress around issues of race and equality.
by Joshua Adams
01.19.17
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President Obama Signs ‘Emmett Till Bill’ To Reopen…

The new legislation will allow civil rights cold cases that happened prior to 1970 to be reopened.
by Brandee Sanders
12.25.16
Donald Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Las Vegas

“All Of Us Have Some Racism In Us:”…

Over the weekend, presidential hopeful and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump garnered an endorsement from another unlikely source -- the brother…
by Christina Coleman
03.24.16
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50 Years Later: JFK’s Effects On African Americans…

I grew up in a family of storytellers. Around our dinner table, stories of 1950’s era Harlem flow freely, as…
by Jada Gomez-Lacayo, Deputy Editor
06.19.19
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Medgar Evers Would Have Been 88-Years-Old Today

The life of Medgar Evers was cut far too short 50 years ago, when the civil rights activist and war…
by D.L. Chandler
06.19.19
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Ku Klux Klan Holds 1st National Meeting On…

White supremacist and extreme-Right organization the Ku Klux Klan began their reign of terror in Tennessee in 1865. Early on,…
by D.L. Chandler
06.19.19
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Navy Names Ship After Medgar Evers
by smokey fontaine
06.19.19
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GOOD NEWS: Medgar Evers Prep Is Rare Inner…
by smokey fontaine
06.19.19