Talk: W. Kamau Bell Has Just the Thing to End Racism
The television host and comedian on why celebrities don’t transcend race, how Muhammad Ali helped him find his blackness and why, sometimes, gimmicks work..
Category: Civil Rights
Today in Black History: The Kerner Report was released
On this date in 1968 the Kerner Report was made public. The civil Rights struggle of the 1960’ was making inroads, integration of southern school districts was progressing and by 1967, 22% of the black students in the 17 southern…
Today in Black History: MLK Ordained
February 25, 1948 Martin Luther King, Jr. is Ordained as a Baptist minister.
Today in Black History: Civil Rights Act passed
On this day 1964, after 10 days of debate and voting on 125 amendments, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by a vote of 290-130. The bill prohibited any state or local government or…
