“Florida is doing its best to shut down discussions about race, slavery, anything having to do with a challenge to the idea that racism is still a real factor in American life today,” said one author and former professor. Academics and Democratic lawmakers reacted angrily Thursday after the administration of Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis […]
Alap’aaq—African American Person Alap’aaq Nuniamen taillria.—An African-American person came to Old Harbor. African Americans began living and working in Alaska in the late nineteenth century. Although their history in the Far North is poorly documented, they came to harvest natural resources and to work for government agencies like other colonists. African Americans mined gold, […]
An African American man was fatally shot Wednesday night by a police officer during a traffic stop in the midwestern city of Falcon Heights, Minnesota, prompting the governor, Mark Dayton, to call for an independent federal investigation. It was the second fatal police shooting of an African American male by white police officers in […]
U.S. Law Enforcement sources state that South Carolina mass shooter, Dylann Roof will face Federal Hate Crime charges for the killing of nine church-goers ar a bible study/prayer meeting in Charleston last month. He was indicted by a federal grand jury the Justice Department reports. 21-year-old Roof entered the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on […]