Educator, activist and author Angela Davis became known for her involvement in a politically charged murder case in the early 1970s.
Its Origin and the UNIA According to the official website of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), the
The pioneering visual artist Faith Ringgold, whose body of work spanned paintings, sculptures, performance art, and widely celebrated story quilts, died this
A new civil rights movement is turning a protest cry into a political force
I created this portrait to celebrate the beautiful diversity and differences we have as women. This artwork helps spread awareness for blacks and minorities who are battling for social equality and justice.
Here, Pan-Africanist, activist, and politician Eusi Kwayana remembers Guyana's support of Angola's liberation movement against the Portuguese.
From 60s calls-to-arms to Grimes' Tumblr poetry, here are the ten most inspiring feminist mission statements
Because it wants to continue taking money directly, Black Lives Matter UK has become an official organization and, in the process, renamed itself “Black Liberation Movement UK.” This obviously allows it to retain its BLM UK branding without changing anything about its politics.
How America's new generation of civil rights activists is mobilizing in the age of Trump
On August 15, 1970, Huey P. Newton, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, gave a speech in New York City where he outlined the Party’s position on two emerging movements at the time, the women’s liberation movement and the gay liberation movement. Newton’s remarks … Read More(1970) Huey P. Newton, “The Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements”
It was all radical and bloody in the 1970s when the black liberation fighters struggle was at its peak in the United States. The violence was spurred
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense has been inactive for 40 years, but its legacy is still mired in mythology. A new documentary by longtime filmmaker Stanley Nelson, titled The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, chronicles the…
Fifty years ago, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party; photographer Stephen Shames provides an intimate look at the black nationalist group
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So many of the social life's aspects have changed for women in the years. Starting with the right for education and ending with gender equality - all of this didn't happen overnight, and many badass women had to sacrifice their personal lives for a greater cause. Women's Equality Day celebrated on August 26th in the US, commemorates the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote. It was certified in 1920, despite being introduced many years earlier in 1878, and since 1972, every president has published a proclamation for Women's Equality Day. Only because of the strong women in history we have reached this point in our society.
At the end of World War II, African Americans were poised to make far-reaching demands to end racism. They were unwilling to give up the minimal gains that had been made during the war. The campaign for African American rights—usually referred to as the civil rights movement or the freedom movement—went forward in the 1940s and ’50s in persistent and deliberate steps. In the courts the NAACP successfully attacked restrictive covenants in housing, segregation in interstate transportation, and discrimination in public recreational facilities. In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court issued one of its most significant rulings. In the case of
From the Carters to the Wades, these couples pulled of looks we're still gagging over years later.
George Washington Carver was a Black scientist who invented more than 300 uses for the peanut. Read about his inventions, education, quotes, and more facts.
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OSPAAAL, the international, pro-communist organization formed in 1966, decried American imperialism with powerful propaganda.
It is the mid 1800’s. It is the middle of the night and you are running for your life through the dark forests of America, to flee from the torture, and slave labor, at a concentration camp. Freedom…
The British actor delivered an era-defining speech to the thousands that gathered peacefully at the Black Lives Matter protest in London’s Hyde Park this week—here are his six powerful calls to action.
The Meaning and Importance of Afrofuturism as an emerging culture exploring the relationship between African culture and Technology.
