Author Stewart Buck has a new book, “Acting White: The Ironic Legacy Of Desegregation” in which he claims that integration has had a negative affect on African-American education. Richard Thompson Ford at Slate wrote this about the book: It was desegregation that destroyed thriving black schools where black faculty were role models and nurtured excellence […]

I was only vaguely aware of the Nigerian singer Fela Kuti before I started going to Pop Life a few years ago. The weekly Wednesday party was at Loft 1523 back then. Promoter/DJ Mike Kitchen always played Kuti’s “No Water No Get Enemy.” The blaring horns and driving beats known as Afrobeat always drew people […]

VIA: www.theflypapernews.com Yesterday we laid to rest one of this nation’s civil rights leaders. During the ceremony Alexis Hermon mentioned Dr. Dorothy Height’s forthcoming memoir, “Open Wide the Freedom Gates.” In the memoir Height will talk about civil and human rights and her role in the process. I wonder if that will include a history […]

VIA NEWSONE Organizations led by civil rights leaders Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks, who both died this month, were in the forefront of the fight for equal rights, but they are now struggling to stay relevant. And nowhere is that fight more evident than in the group founded by Martin Luther King Jr.: the Southern […]

VIA: About.Com Dorothy Height has made many strides for women and African Americans. Dorothy started out as a teacher at a community center in Brooklyn, New York where she became active in the United Christian Youth Movement. In 1938 she was chosen by Eleanor Roosevelt to help plan a World Youth Conference, where she met […]

VIA: Email from www.hiphopcaucus.com A great civil rights leader, Dr. Benjamin Hooks passed away last week at 85 years old. Dr. Hooks was a true renaissance man – a minister, lawyer, judge, businessman, television producer, and the first African-American FCC commissioner. He was head of the NAACP through a period of transition and expansion in […]

Civil Rights icon Dorothy Height died today at the age of 98, according to media reports. President Barack Obama called Height “the godmother of the civil rights movement” and a hero to many Americans.” In a statement, Obama said Height was the only woman at the highest level of the civil rights movement and witnessed […]

VIA CNN Princeton, New Jersey — All around the world last weekend, Christians celebrated Easter. For them, this holiest of days announced that death does not have the final word and that eternal life awaits those who would just believe. Sunday also marked the anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. Forty-two years […]

VIA CHARLOTTE OBSERVER The popular civil rights tour of the South that teacher Larry Bosc organizes at East Mecklenburg High School has an unusual twist this year. Ten students at Charlotte Latin School will join 37 East Meck students for the bus trip, which runs today through Sunday and will hit some of the most […]

VIA QcityMetro.com Georgia congressman and civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis spoke at CPCC and screened his new documentary, “Come Walk in My Shoes.” Lewis signed autographs and encouraged students and others to challenge injustice. He spoke to a largely student crowd at Central Piedmont Community College. Lewis’ award-winning documentary examines his life during the […]