by Good Black News | Aug 23, 2020 | Empowerment & Inspirational, Entertainment, Politics |
A 1000-square-foot art installation depicting civil rights, anti-lynching and women’s rights advocate Ida B. Wells will go on display in Washington D.C.’s Union Station on Aug. 24, According to wamu.org. Artist Helen Marshall created the portrait of Wells out of...
by Good Black News | Aug 19, 2020 | Empowerment & Inspirational, News, Politics, State & National |
Making history as the first Black woman and nominated by the Democratic Party for Vice President, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris from California accepted the nomination tonight at the Democratic National Convention from Delaware, where she is working with Democratic...
by Good Black News | Jul 23, 2020 | Education, Empowerment & Inspirational, News, Politics, State & National |
A county school board in Virginia voted Thursday to rename Springfield, VA’s Robert E. Lee High School after recently deceased Civil Rights activist and U.S. Congress Member John R. Lewis. The new name will be effective for the 2020-21 school year. According to...
by Good Black News | Jul 18, 2020 | Empowerment & Inspirational, News, Politics, State & National |
John Lewis (photo by Rick Diamond / Getty Images) Rep. John Lewis, an iconic pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement and Freedom Rider who literally shed his blood in the fight for Black voting rights and went on to become a 17-term Democratic member of Congress, died...
by Good Black News | Jul 17, 2020 | Empowerment & Inspirational, News, Politics, State & National |
Rev. C.T. Vivian receives 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama (photo: commons.wikipedia.org) According to nytimes. com, the Rev. C.T. Vivian, a civil rights organizer and adviser for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian...
by Good Black News | Jul 5, 2020 | Empowerment & Inspirational, Entertainment, News, Politics |
According to cnn.com, a statue depicting a formerly enslaved man kneeling before President Abraham Lincoln in a park in Boston, MA, will be removed. To quote cnn.com: After two public hearings, the Boston Art Commission voted to remove the Emancipation Group, a statue...
