the only prior physical altercation I had was with a Black boy. I stepped off a school bus that day with a busted lip after fighting him. While
As a child,Joshuawas determined to help people living in poverty. He founded a nonprofit organization dedicated to “Stomp Out World Hunger” and “Break the Cycle of Poverty.” To date, Joshua’s organization has donated4.8 million pounds of foodand helped thousands of families in need. 5. ...
omar was alienated but ambitious. during her senior year of high school, she moved back to minneapolis, where she later enrolled in community college; by her sophomore year of college, she’d been elected president of the student senate. she also began getting involved with black lives matter...
buckled shoes, and knickered pants that the Dutch settlers who came to North America wore that ended just below the knee. At the same time, the term Knickerbocker became in indelibly linked to anything and everything New York. And so when the team was founded in 19...
"When I was into about the third or fourth one of those, I said even a president should be calling for an economic blackout and to unionize citizens. And when I kind of said that, it sparked that idea in me. And I said, you know what, as a matter of fact...
Since matter matters when it comes to sound—there can be none of the latter without the former—we also get an otherworldly examination of what human voices would sound like on different terrestrial and gas planets in our solar system, as well as some creative efforts from musicians and scien...
The Black Lives Matter activist's road to Congress kicked off with a long-shot campaign for the Senate in 2016 and an unsuccessful 2018 run to unseat Democratic incumbent Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr., who represented the district beginning 2001; prior to that, his father held the seat for 32...
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir By Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele (Foreword by Angela Davis) This is the story of why Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi co-founded Black Lives Matter, and how the original hashtag #BlackLivesMatter turne...
She founded Literacy Volunteers of America, was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame and received the nation’s highest civilian award: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Aug. 18. Al Attles, 87. A Hall of Famer who coached the 1975 NBA champion Warriors and spent more than six...
“Black voters are pragmatic voters” and the younger ones are less party-centric and more focused on issues, said LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter. “At the end of the day, this cannot be an election just around the candidates. It can’t be just Trump. It can’t b...