Actor, Singer, Humanitarian Harry Belafonte Has Died Emmy, Tony and Grammy winner and civil rights icon was 96 Multichannel News · Apr 25, 2023
Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer, dies at 96 Harry Belafonte has died at age 96 The Independent UK · Apr 25, 2023
Harry Belafonte, groundbreaking activist and entertainer, dies at 96 Mr. Belafonte died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his wife Pamela by his side, a representative said. Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 25, 2023
Harry Belafonte, singer, actor and tireless activist, dies aged 96 Chart-topping calypso singer who supported US civil rights movement and African initiatives dies of congestive heart failure The Guardian - UK · Apr 25, 2023
The Observer view on the growing threat to democracy in India As his country overtakes China as the world’s most populous, Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government is escalating its attack on civil rights The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2023
Crump says Kaepernick to pay for autopsy for inmate who died in 'appalling conditions' The former NFL quarterback is assisting the family of Lashawn Thompson, a Georgia jail inmate who died last year while covered in insects, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said. WEKU · Apr 21, 2023
Black students in Washington state played key role in the Civil Rights Movement, new book states When it comes to civil rights history, the focus is often on the marches, boycotts, sit-ins and other protests that took place in the South. In “Washington State Rising,” Marc Arsell Robinson, assistant professor of African American history at California State University, San Bernardino, takes a look at the civil… The Conversation · Apr 21, 2023
The Secret Life of Bees review – blazing songs light up civil rights drama A young white woman and her Black housekeeper flee across the American south amid the historic struggle, buoyed by astonishingly powerful music The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2023
What we know about the shooting of Black teen who went to wrong house: ‘Ringing a doorbell is not a crime’ A Black teenager went to pick up his younger brothers from a friend’s house, accidentally rang the doorbell at the wrong address and was shot twice by a white homeowner. Now, a Missouri judge has ordered that there is enough evidence for the case to go to trial. Rachel Sharp… The Independent UK · Apr 20, 2023
Daniel Akst: The World War II Pacifists Who Changed America Forever "Christian libertarians" Bayard Rustin and David Dellinger challenged state power and ended up leading the civil rights movement and anti-Vietnam War protests. Reason · Apr 19, 2023
‘No denying:’ Activists demand Ralph Yarl’s shooting be investigated as a hate crime KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Civil rights leaders, elected officials and activists on Tuesday banded together for a downtown Kansas City rally in support of Ralph Yarl, the Black 16-year-old whose shooting outside a Northland home has sparked national outrage and calls for reforms. Tribune News Service · Apr 19, 2023
What we know about the shooting of Black teen who went to wrong house: ‘Ringing a doorbell is not a crime’ A Black teenager went to pick up his younger brothers from a friend’s house, accidentally rang the doorbell at the wrong address and was shot twice by a white homeowner. Now, protesters, celebrities and civil rights figures are demanding justice. Rachel Sharp reports The Independent UK · Apr 19, 2023
Suspect surrenders after outrage in US shooting of Ralph Yarl Lawyers for Yarl are demanding to know why gunman was initially released after Thursday’s shooting in Missouri. Al Jazeera · Apr 18, 2023
What we know about the shooting of Black teen who went to wrong house: ‘Ringing a doorbell is not a crime’ A Black teenager went to pick up his younger brothers from a friend’s house, accidentally rang the doorbell at the wrong address and was shot twice by a white homeowner. Now, protesters, celebrities and civil rights figures are demanding justice. Rachel Sharp reports The Independent UK · Apr 18, 2023
The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2023 ‘Ringing a doorbell is not a crime’: What we know about the shooting of Black teen Ralph Yarl A Black teenager went to pick up his younger brothers from a friend’s house, accidentally rang the doorbell at the wrong address and was shot twice by a white homeowner. Now, protesters, celebrities and civil rights figures are demanding justice. Rachel Sharp reports
Reason · Apr 17, 2023 Meet Jane Doe [UPDATED] [UPDATE: It turns out that the Maryland intermediate appellate court reached the opposite result for the same plaintiff; post bumped up so readers can see the update, which is available in the second half of this post.].]
The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2023 House where King planned Alabama marches moving to Michigan An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan and will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation
The Guardian - US · Apr 17, 2023 ‘Caste is anti-Asian hate’: the activists fighting ‘less visible’ discrimination in the US Thenmozhi Soundararajan has spent her life battling for equity. Now California could pass a landmark law protecting it
The Independent UK · Apr 16, 2023 In Tennessee, expulsions echo a decades-old protest movement In barely two weeks, two young Black Tennessee state legislators have gone from neophyte politicians to national prominence
The Independent UK · Apr 15, 2023 Report finds democracy for Black Americans is under attack A new report from the National Urban League is citing what the civil rights and urban advocacy group says are some of the top threats to democracy for Black Americans
The Independent UK · Apr 12, 2023 Lawsuit: Guards beat, taunt inmate with, 'You can't breathe' An advocacy group for prisoners’ rights has filed a civil rights lawsuit against corrections officers who allegedly ignored requirements that they videotape a prison-cell encounter with an inmate, who says he was sexually abused, beaten without provocation and taunted with words that evoked the 2020 death of George Floyd at…
The Guardian - US · Apr 12, 2023 Billy Porter to play James Baldwin in new biopic Porter to star in and co-write film based on 1994 biography of influential writer and civil rights activist
The Independent UK · Apr 12, 2023 Missouri Republicans threaten to defund public libraries in stunning move over book bans Library groups and civil rights organisations say the latest proposal is in retaliation for a lawsuit over a recently enacted state law that threatens educators with criminal punishment
Tribune News Service · Apr 11, 2023 Civil rights group files federal lawsuit against North Carolina’s new anti-rioting law RALEIGH, N.C. — A civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the North Carolina law passed this year that imposes stricter penalties for rioting.
Tribune News Service · Apr 11, 2023 NYPD reboots cyborg police dog after backlash and, again, civil rights advocates warn against high-tech hound NEW YORK — Digidog, the NYPD robot pooch, is back and department leaders promise it’s not the dystopian surveillance nightmare it was made out to be the first time New Yorkers got a look at it.