black history month

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU), the first black trade union in Africa, by Clements Kadalie.

“If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t be standing up here today,” she said, noting that she was incarcerated for sixteen years before she was freed.

The president is scheduled to deliver remarks at 6:15 p.m. EST.

Rapper Cardi B blasted Empire actor Jussie Smollett for ruining Black History Month, following allegations that he paid two men to conduct a hoax hate crime against him.

Republicans in Wisconsin’s House of Representatives blocked a resolution recognizing Black History Month, until sponsors removed the name of former NFL player Colin Kaepernick from the document.

Jeremy Corbyn has said if he were to lead Britain, schoolchildren would be extensively taught about so-called “grave injustices” he says Britain has caused around the world.

Popular black YouTube star Sky Williams pointed out the hypocrisy of YouTube after the company encouraged people to “subscribe to black creators,” during Black History Month.

Monday, San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich argued that it was important for the NBA to promote Black History Month because America is a “racist country” and everybody needs to be reminded of it because there is “still a lot

The Boston Police Department chose to celebrate an equality-minded white basketball coach for Black History Month, and promptly got blasted for it on Twitter.

Black Lives Matter marks Black History Month by infiltrating public schools to teach diversity, globalism, and “queer affirming” curriculum.

President Trump signed into law legislation to preserve and protect contributions African Americans made during the civil rights movement.

A Vermont high school has announced that it will fly the Black Lives Matter (BLM) flag during Black History Month, though many feel it is a domestic terror outfit.

Theresa May has prioritised identity politics campaigners and activists promoting “diversity” in her first New Year honours list.

One of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities has bowed to pressure from the ‘Why is my curriculum white?’ campaign which protests the alleged “Eurocentrism” of history teaching.

President Donald Trump opened his highly anticipated address to a special joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening with a message of tolerance, reminding the country about Black History Month and condemning recent antisemitic attacks.

During Saturday’s Weekly Address, President Trump stated, “We’ve lost a lot of our best jobs to other countries, and this has hurt the African-American community very badly.” Transcript (h/t NBC) as Follows: “My fellow Americans, as Black History Month 2017 comes

Who was Frederick Douglass? More importantly, why does Frederick Douglass matter to today’s America? The above questions are not merely rhetorical, as the recent controversy surrounding President Trump’s Black History Month statement illustrate.

“If you work hard and lace up your shoes, you can have the American dream, that’s a bunch of hogwash,” informed San Antonio Spurs head coach Greg Popovich when he was asked what black history month meant to him by Jabari Young who covers the Spurs & NBA for the San Antonio Express-News.

A local leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) defended paintings displayed in Silicon Valley’s East Side Union High School District administrative offices for Black History Month that mocked police, and which were removed after complaints from parents.

Campaigners are angry that most of the new entrants in a dictionary of people who shaped Britain are white, claiming black people have been ‘airbrushed’ from the country’s history. Critics called on editors to widen the scope of their research,

Beyoncé says her Super Bowl performance, which saw the singer and her backup dancers praising the anti-police Black Panther Party and won admiration from Malcolm X’s daughter, was not “anti-police” and was simply “powerful art” that was “misunderstood.”

The Oscars on Sunday night represented a perfect showcase for the self-congratulatory left. From transgenderism to Black Lives Matter, from global warming to campus sexual assault, every hot button issue for the left received a turn on camera. And when one Republican appeared, the show seemed to stop for just a moment, before continuing on in its journey to leftist utopia.

Planned Parenthood – the nation’s largest provider of abortions – says it is celebrating Black History Month.

The Purdue University employee who had been accused of making threats of rape to pro-life students and their family members has resigned after the school demanded an apology for his actions and he apparently refused to issue one.

Purdue University employee Jamie Newman has responded to the school’s demand for “a full apology” for his alleged threats of rape against pro-life students and their family members with the statement, “If anything, you owe me an apology.”

Purdue University is reviewing the situation surrounding a school staff member who allegedly threatened to rape a group of pro-life students who set up a display on campus that featured information about the disproportionate number of abortions performed on black babies.

No good deed goes unpunished, especially when it comes to smashing liberal shibboleths. Anna Duggar, star of the reality show 19 Kids and Counting, posted a pro-life Twitter message highlighting the importance of black lives, for which she has received an avalanche of criticism.