Focusing on the extraordinary women behind the two men who would change history, " Betty & Coretta " tells the similar true stories of Coretta Scott King (Angela Bassett), wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Malik Yoba), and Dr. Betty Shabazz (Mary J. Blige), wife of Malcolm X (Lindsay Owen Pi... Read more...
The grandson of late civil rights leader Malcolm X was arrested by the FBI on Monday on his way to Iran to attend a Hollywoodism conference. The Hollywoodism conference occurs annually and brings together filmmakers, directors, actors, and movie critics as well as politicians and economists who ... Read more...
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. penned these words in Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, the last book he published before his assassination in 1968. More than forty years after Dr... Read more...
...like Trayvon Martin America loves Black men like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and even Trayvon Martin - after they are dead... TRAYVON MARTIN is more valuable to America as a dead young black man then he ever was alive! As a dead symbol, the president can claim him as a son ... Read more...
Annie Spencer Annie Bethel Spencer was a poet and active participant in the New Negro Movement and Harlem Renaissance period. Anne was the first Virginian and first African-American to have her poetry included in the Norton Anthology of American Poetry. Also an activist ... Read more...
By Dr. Carl C. Bell Chief Executive Officer, Community Mental Health Council My life's work has been about not only treating mental illness but preventing it. That's why on Friday, Jan. 14, the day before the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I resigned from the prestigious National ... Read more...
NOTE: FOR THE RECORD, I AM A POLITICAL ATHIEST...I DONT PARTICIPATE NOR DO I BELIEVE IN THE PUPPET SHOW. AS LONG AS WE ONLY HAVE 2 PEOPLE OR 2 PARTIES TO CHOOSE FROM...NO THANKS, I'M GOOD. BUT I'M JUST STATING THE FACTS HERE... This nation’s top historians reveal that the Democratic Par... Read more...
Ernest Withers, a revered civil rights photographer who captured iconic images of Martin Luther King Jr. on the night King was shot in Memphis, actually played a different role the day before: FBI informant. The Commercial Appeal, a newspaper in Memphis, just completed a two-year investigation ... Read more...