While most of us spent this past weekend either picking out our Halloween costumes or catching up with friends, dancer Angela “Angyil” McNeal spent hers laying waste to any and all dancers in her way during the Red Bull “Dance Your Style” National Finals USA. In front of an electrifying crowd at Washington, D.C.’s…
In recorded history, Rosa Parks is largely credited with the act of resistance that prompted the Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama on December 1, 1955—which, in turn, became a catalytic event in the broader civil rights movement of the last century. But nine months earlier, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested…
On Monday, Minnesota’s Congressional delegation introduced a resolution to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to the Purple One himself, the artist forever known as Prince.
Before the Central Park Five, there was the Groveland Four.
The critically acclaimed Watchmen gave the new generation a glimpse into what transpired during the Tulsa Race Massacre. Black Wall Street—what the neighborhood of Greenwood was called because of the residents’ affluence—was destroyed in a matter of two days, leaving about 300 Black people dead and even more without…
