Will Packer ~ ~ ~ Joan Little Will Packer is getting ready to develop a miniseries adaptation about the landmark case of Joan Little, c...

From Styleite : Opportunities for Black people — and especially for Black women — in the years following the abolition of slavery were few a...

From DoD Live : A young woman from rural east Texas, who grew up in a hardscrabble existence as one of 13 children born to poor sharecropper...

From the Sydney Morning Herald : The Help is already a big success. Having blitzed the US box office, it looks like making more money than ...

From Baristanet : Last week, on Tuesday morning at Newark’s communication headquarters, Mayor Cory Booker formally announced Chief Coley as ...

From 11 Alive : This is the 150th year since the beginning of the American Civil War. So much conflict history surrounds Atlanta and North ...

From The Daily News Online : About two years ago Susan Sherwin was indulging in a favorite pastime — looking at headstones at Longview Memor...

From News Wise : Women and Slavery in America: A Documentary History , edited by Catherine M. Lewis and J. Richard Lewis has been published ...

From Black Star News : She was a pioneering journalist who founded a newspaper at a most challenging time in the nation's history, espe...

From the New York Times : Barbara Smith Conrad, a black child of the segregated South, did not seek to vote or to ride in the front of the b...

From SheWired.com : Flamboyant, bold and outrageous were Zora Neale Hurston’s writings, as was her life. As the diva of the Harlem Renaissan...

From Black Voice News : Kamala Harris, former San Francisco District Attorney became the first woman, first African American, and first Asia...

From the Washington Post : In the segregated American South, a white man could rape a black woman with little fear of legal or social recour...