#blackexcellence #blackculture #blackcommunities When it comes to rich black communities, Maryland and California are the breakout states. But where exactly are these communities located? We have the list of the top 5 richest black communities in this episode of The 5. Welcome to “The 5”, where we share 5 interesting things in black culture and […]
In this short video, David Austin, editor of the new book ‘Moving Against the System’ (Pluto, 2018) talks about one of the most important political events in the history of Black radicalism, which took place in Montreal in October 1968. About the book: Book In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, […]
The Tulsa race riot was a large-scale, racially motivated pogrom on May 31 and June 1, 1921, in which a group of whites attacked the black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Greenwood District, the wealthiest black community in the United States (now commonly referred to as “the Black Wall Street”), was burned to the ground. […]
Martin Luther King Jr. est l’un des leaders charismatiques de l’histoire américaine. Conscience de la nation, il incarna la lutte des minorités pour légalité civique, le combat contre la ségrégation, et fut l’un de ses nombreux martyrs. Avec de nombreux documents inédits, le film de Tom Friedman nous propose l’analyse minutieuse du parcours magistral de […]
Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael “Mickey” Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder in the summer of 1964. It starred Tom Hulce as Schwerner, Jennifer Grey as his wife Rita, Blair Underwood […]