- 41. Amy Coney Barrett Is A Threat To Civil Rights
- (Blog)
- ... the former GOP chairman and Maryland's first African-American Lieutenant Governor, suggested in a phone interview that Trump nominees' silence on Brown v. Board of Education leaves open the possibilit ...
- Created on 30 September 2020
- 42. 5 Claims Trump Made That Were Just Flat-Out Lies
- (General)
- ... in the 1994 Crime Bill, he called African-Americans “super-predators.” That statement was famously uttered by Hillary Clinton, not Biden. During the debate Trump kept saying that when Biden was involved ...
- Created on 30 September 2020
- 43. Death and the Maidens: How Previous Pandemics Helped Make the World a Better Place for Women
- (Feminism)
- ... They went into every kind of factory devoted to the production of war materials, from the most dangerous posts in munitions plants to the delicate sewing in aeroplane factories,” African-American journalist ...
- Created on 29 September 2020
- 44. Mother Nature Disagrees: Confederate Statue Brought Down By Hurricane Laura
- (Living)
- ... is a view shared by Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter. "When we think about this Confederate monument, it literally symbolizes white supremacy and enslaved African Americans," Cary Chavis, who started a petition ...
- Created on 28 August 2020
- 45. The 100th Anniversary of (Some) Women's Suffrage: Did YOUR state support women's right to vote? Check this state-by-state history of the fight for suffrage in Ameri
- (Feminism)
- ... groups in Florida only supported the white woman’s right to vote, so, African American women were frequently excluded from the suffrage organizations. Florida did not hold a vote on the 19th amendment ...
- Created on 18 August 2020
- 46. Hey 19: The Wild True Story Of America's First Women-Led Terrorist Grou
- (General)
- ... wouldn’t be the group’s only bombing. Over the course of only two years, M19 bombed several locations, including an FBI office, the South African consulate in New York, and Washington D.C.’s Fort McNair ...
- Created on 30 July 2020
- 47. Morgan Jerkins Explores and Reclaims Her Roots In "Wandering In Strange Lands
- (Books)
- ... Ultimately, her voyage puts a personal face on The Great Migration, a movement which led six million African Americans to leave the rural South throughout the mid-20th century. For fans of “The 1619 ...
- Created on 20 July 2020
- 48. Mississippi Will Remove State Flag Bearing Confederate Symbol
- (Living)
- ... In 2015, there was another wave of resistance against the state flag following the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina in which nine Black parishioners of an Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church ...
- Created on 29 June 2020
- 49. NASA Renames Headquarters After First Black Woman Engineer, Mary W. Jackson
- (Feminism)
- ... for African Americans and women in the field of engineering and technology,” said Bridenstine. “Today, we proudly announce the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building. It appropriately sits on ‘Hidden ...
- Created on 25 June 2020
