Juneteenth has been recognized as a US federal holiday since 2021 and acts as a day to celebrate the end of slavery in the country – but millions of Americans will not have the day MORE
No More Closets! In their quest to become the Republic of Gilead’s capital, Out Leadership has released its 2024 equality report that shows Florida as one of the worst states where LGBTQ+ rights have deteriorated. MORE
“The Shenandoah County school board’s U-turn is one of the sharpest examples of a nationwide pushback by conservative groups against the changes that were made after the summer of protests in 2020 following George Floyd’s MORE
With the arrival of “Cowboy Carter,” billed as a “multi-genre nod to Americana country culture,” came a chorus of praise from traditional country and country crossover artists — including several featured on the album. . MORE
In January of 2023, a group of five officers, who were also Black, fatally beat Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop in Memphis, TN. The rogue officers, who were part of the ‘Scorpion Unit,’ were MORE
CNN reports: “A federal judge in Texas said Tuesday that a US Commerce Department agency intended to help minority-owned businesses must offer assistance to all individuals, regardless of race, agreeing with White business owners who claimed MORE
Said one reviewer/historian, “Hurt is not a raw, harsh chronicler of the human condition in the manner of many Mississippi-shaped blues storytellers. There is an uncommon gentleness in his work.” The Smithsonian reports, “A museum MORE
The Texas CROWN Act, went into effect on September 1, 2023, and prohibits discrimination based on hairstyles that are commonly associated with a particular race or culture. The Texas Tribune reports “At 18, Darryl George MORE
February 2024 is a pivotal Black History Month. . . Why? Because we live in a country that right here, right now, is trying to revise Black History — make it pretty, make it on MORE
Some states, Tennessee included, are arguably no longer democracies; One political party flies the flag of Non-Democracy even on MLK day, Kennedy, who is seeking the 2024 presidency as an independent, defended his family’s authorization MORE
Kim Davis, the former county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses in Kentucky to same-sex couples, must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, according to MORE
An 8-year-old Native American boy who had grown out his hair to honor his ancestry was made to get a haircut after being threatened with suspension from school, the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas MORE
The jury was deadlocked on both counts against former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison, who fired stray bullets in the raid. The Associated Press is reporting that jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict on MORE
According to the Huffington Post, “Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones (D) declared that Americans “don’t have to live this way” and slammed “asinine” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday following a deadly Jacksonville store shooting that a local sheriff described as MORE
NAACP: On Aug. 28, 1963, more than a quarter million people participated in the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, gathering near the Lincoln Memorial. More than 3,000 members of the press covered MORE
A small town newspaper owner and publisher in Kansas had his office and home raided on Friday by local law enforcement officers, who seized computers, cell phones, and other materials. The city’s entire five-officer police MORE
A Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care, including hormone therapies, puberty blockers and gender-affirming surgery on minors will be allowed to go into effect following an appeals court ruling to reinstate the law. On June MORE
Jordan Neely died on a New York City subway after a man put him in a chokehold for several minutes while two others held his arms down. The incident has been ruled a homicide by MORE
Former NBA star, Dwyane Wade, says he left Florida because he feels his family “would not be accepted there or feel comfortable there” because of anti-LGBTQ+ policies in the state. Wade has a 15-year-old daughter, MORE
In August of 1955, Carolyn Bryant, age 21, accused Emmett Till, visiting from Chicago, of making sexual advances toward her in her husband’s store in Money, Mississippi. From the New York Times: With Bryant’s death, MORE
The night before, Dr. King delivered his Mountaintop Speech saying “I’ve seen the Promised Land…” Tuesday, April 4, marks the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Despite yearly commemorations MORE
A Disney film that tells of a 6-year-old’s integration into a white school in 1960’s New Orleans has never caused a disturbance until this year in a Pinellas County Florida elementary school. A staple of MORE
From The Hill: The family of Malcolm X, the civil rights icon who was assassinated [on Feb. 21] 1965, will file a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against federal and state government agencies for allegedly MORE
Now students are planning a statewide walkout. DeSantis asked to see the records of any student who has experienced gender dysphoria in the past five years. In addition, he wants their ages and the dates they received MORE
Evan Lambert, a NewsNation reporter, was arrested on Feb. 8 while doing a live shot at a news conference where the governor of Ohio was speaking. The Ohio Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Section was appointed MORE