Black History

James Jackson: Communist leader and pioneer fighter for civil rights

June 7, 2019 By Tim Wheeler

It would be hard to make sense of the civil rights struggles of the ’60s without a knowledge of this earlier movement that Jim Jackson helped build.

Centering Black life: Groundbreaking filmmaker John Singleton dies at age 51

April 30, 2019 By Chauncey K. Robinson

Singleton’s films centering the Black experience will live on, inspiring future Black storytellers and showing that these stories can be told, despite the odds.

Black History: The Great Migration then and now

February 26, 2019 By Chauncey K. Robinson

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Honoring Frank Robinson’s legacy

February 8, 2019 By Al Neal

Let’s honor Frank Robinson’s legacy by continuing to hold fast in our fight for social, racial, and economic justice.

Frank Robinson, baseball’s fearsome trailblazer, dies at 83

February 8, 2019 By Associated Press

Crowding the plate, fearsome and fearless, Frank Robinson hammered his way into the Hall of Fame. His legacy, however, was cemented that day in 1975 when he simply stood in the dugout at old Cleveland Stadium...