California woman dies in house fire sparked by artificial Christmas tree

A Black woman passed away after letting five other people in California home know about a house fire in the Sacramento-area community of North Highlands, California, on Christmas Day. The fire began because a faulty artificial Christmas tree. On Christmas day at 2 a.m., Destiny Abdrazack woke up to a fire in her future in-laws home. […]

Eugene Williams drowned at a Chicago beach in 1919 sparked race riot

Eugene Williams drowned at a Chicago beach in 1919 after white man struck him with a rock for going on the ‘white’ side of Lake Michigan During the second decade of the 20th century segregation in Chicago wasn’t legal as it was in Southern cities. However, there were unwritten rules that restricted Black people from […]