Youth soar to new heights with Hugh J. White Tuskegee Airmen Chapter
The Discovery Flight program is free and introduces young people from 8-18 years old to flying and the history of famed Black Airmen.
The Discovery Flight program is free and introduces young people from 8-18 years old to flying and the history of famed Black Airmen.
CORE’s just demand was to hire four employees to address the racist hiring practices in St. Louis banking institutions. When the bank’s response was that there were not “four Blacks in the city” fit for such jobs, CORE launched a protest that became the longest and most contentious in St. Louis civil rights history.
When the matter of wrongful convictions is discussed, you may hear the frequently cited theory by Sir William Blackstone: it is better that ten guilty people go free than one innocent person suffer. The English legal scholar formulated the theory in 1765 and it became the basis for the noble idea that one is innocent until proven guilty.
Harris as a potential Presidential nominee can only expect success if the Democrats launch a serious, vibrant grassroots campaign that informs and galvanizes all the constituents that trump has marginalized and criminalized.
They also used to be fun and exciting…not anymore. The MAGA folks went into the Republican National Convention with a crazed fervor and have seized the political momentum once again.
In a MAGA world, to be affiliated with Diversity, Inclusion and Equity is a crime and deserving of punishment. Monica Smith is the University of Wisconsin System’s latest casualty. For the chief diversity officer, her hiring was incredibly untimely.
The investigative series on the unsolved homicides by the St. Louis Police Department (SLPD) was revealing and confirming. St. Louis Public Radio, American Public Media and The Marshall Project joined forces to find out the reasons and presented their findings recently to the public.
Our time is better spent building a united front against fascism – We talk about the impending doom as if it won’t affect us or as if we have no power to change the course of political trajectory barreling towards authoritarianism.
The persistent problem of mass incarceration in the U.S. invokes the saying, “If you keep doing the same thing, you will get the same results.”