The protests have taken place in the background of a pandemic that has disproportionately affected African Americans For more than a week, protests have shaken cities across the US following the ...
A woman with her face covered by a Kenyan flag protests against George Floyd's death As protests rock the US following the death of African-American George Floyd in police custody, Kenyan ...
Michael Brown’s fatal shooting by police a decade ago set off more than a week of protests by thousands of people in Ferguson ...
a time when the public mobs of Jim Crow would openly celebrate the lynching of African Americans.” Protests have proliferated since Oct. 7, when Hamas terrorists murdered some 1,200 people and ...
Like Thurgood Marshall and the leadership of the NAACP, he believed that civil disobedience, mass protests and any other efforts that put African Americans in conflict with the powers that be ...
The protest was one of the first media events ... She also attacked the pageant's beauty standards as racist. As of 1968, no African American woman had taken a place among the contest's finalists.
"When you're going to Columbia, you know you're going to an institution which has an honoured place in the history of American protest," Mark Naison, professor of history and African American ...