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Please Join ABHM for Black History Month Programs!
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Read MoreBlack and Jewish entertainment professionals sign unity statement
More than 170 Black and Jewish entertainment industry professionals have signed a unity statement with the goal of improving relations between Blacks and Jews while countering racism and antisemitism in the entertainment community.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Black Lives Matter movement nominated for Nobel peace prize
The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel peace prize for the way it calls for systemic change has spread around the world. In his nomination papers, the Norwegian MP Petter Eide said the movement had forced countries outside the US to grapple with racism within their own societies.
Read MoreABHM and WBHS Combine to Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2021
Clayborn Benson, Director of the Wisconsin Black Historical Society, and Dr. Robert S. Smith, Resident Historian at America’s Black Holocaust Museum, converse about Dr. King’s travels to Milwaukee and Wisconsin. They also discuss his brilliant intellect and simple but not simplistic ways of articulating the call for civil rights.
Read MoreA Covid-19 Relief Fund Was Only for Black Residents. Then Came the Lawsuits.
Coronavirus has sickened and killed 2-3 times more black people than whites. Black business owners are losing their livelihoods, as stay-at-home orders are put into place. Due to decades of racial segregation, they did not have valuable houses they could tap for capital. So Oregon earmarked $62 million of its $1.4 billion in federal Covid-19 relief money to provide grants to Black residents, business owners and community organizations struggling due to the pandemic. Now the state faces lawsuits from groups who feel left out of this “affirmative action.”
Read MoreHow Black Parents Survived 2020
As this difficult year of racial reckoning and a global pandemic draws to a close, six African American families share how they have coped.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – ‘The police are making us look bad’: Protesters march through Wauwatosa
Protesters marched again through the streets of Wauwatosa calling for justice for 17-year-old Alvin Cole and demanding change in the Wauwatosa Police Department and their community.
Read More‘Another form of redlining’: Milwaukee among cities named in lawsuit against Redfin, real estate firm
A popular online real estate brokerage service has engaged in racially discriminatory practices akin to modern-day redlining in Milwaukee and other cities across the country, according to a new federal lawsuit.
Read MoreSpecial News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – What We Know About the Death of Walter Wallace Jr. in Philadelphia
On Monday afternoon, two Philadelphia police officers fatally shot Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old Black man who was armed with a knife. In the nights that followed, protesters clashed with officers in the streets, and city officials imposed a curfew to try to curb the unrest.
Read More‘Colin In Black And White’: Netflix Series From Ava DuVernay Finds Lead In Jaden Michael
This six-episode series will “focus on Kaepernick’s formative high school years, lending meaningful insight into the acts and experiences that led him to become the activist he is today.”
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