By Cedric Mobley For decades, Black Americans fought in the U.S. military to bring liberty to people around the world, even though those rights were often denied to them at home. Nevertheless, these heroes have sacrificed their safety and devoted their lives to protecting
By Cedric Mobley For decades, Black Americans fought in the U.S. military to bring liberty to people around the world, even though those rights were often denied to them at home. Nevertheless, these heroes have sacrificed their safety and devoted their lives to protecting the promise of Americaâ that the country will one day truly facilitate âliberty
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Tuskegee University will honor all 95Â past and present Miss Tuskegee campus queens during the universityâs 100th anniversary homecoming this week. In honor of Tuskegeeâs centennial homecoming celebration, Andscape spoke with several women who have worn the Miss Tuskegee crown. Interviews have been edited for length and clarity. Born and raised in Tuskegee, Alabama, Faye Hall
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By Cedric Mobley For 157 years, Howard University has served as the nexus of intellectual engagement and social advocacy to ensure that all Americans can fully exercise all the rights of citizenship. Even before the end of slavery, the work of Frederick Douglass, who would become a Howard trustee, served as the foundation for universal
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Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasnât going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got himself arrested. Finally on Friday, that arrest and the records of six of his friends were erased as a judge signed an order
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By Reuters and Michelle Garcia The U.S. Justice Department has launched a review and evaluation of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said. The massacre started on May 31, 1921, when white attackers killed as many as 300 people, most of them Black, in Tulsaâs prosperous Greenwood neighborhood, which had gained the nickname
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By Aziah Siid What do Martin Luther King Jr., Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and Vice President Kamala Harris have in common? Theyâre all graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The schools saw a surge in applications from high school seniors after the murder of George Floyd. And along with increasingly being seen by Black
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By Richard Sandomir Gail Lumet Buckley, who rather than follow her mother, Lena Horne, into show business, wrote two multigenerational books about their ambitious Black middle-class family, died on July 18 at her home in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 86. Her daughter Jenny Lumet, a screenwriter and film and television producer, said the cause
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When Tamika Thomas went on a field trip to Cheyney University as an elementary student, she left the campus knowing where she wanted to go for college. Thomas, who graduated from Cheyney in 1994, is currently the universityâs psychology professor. âI went into Cheyneyâs science building and saw different African American students who were learning
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By Keir Simmons and Corky Siemaszko A century ago, at a small stadium just outside Paris, a college track and field star from Ohio named William DeHart Hubbard took a dramatic leap forward for himself and for all African Americans back home in the segregated United States of America. By defeating the best long jumpers in the world at
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