The statue, originally unveiled in 1914, depicts a woman adorned with a crown of olive leaves standing on a pedestal. She holds a laurel wreath, a plow stock, and a pruning hook. At her feet, a Biblical inscription reads, “They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks.”
The Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences has determined that the death of Dennoriss Richardson, a Black man found hanging in an abandoned house in Colbert County in late...
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More than 100 years after three Black men were unjustly lynched, a judge in Culpeper County, Virginia, has officially cleared their names, marking a significant step toward acknowledging...
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A civil rights complaint has been lodged against Northern Illinois University (NIU) over two programs allegedly restricted to Black applicants. The complaint focuses on the university’s Black Student...
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Black Americans make up 13.7% of the U.S. population but represent 32.2% of the homeless population, while white people, including those of Hispanic descent, make up 55% of...
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The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, tasked with investigating unresolved civil rights cases from 1940 to 1979, recently released new findings. These cases, classified as racially...
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