Posts in category Black History

By ISHEKAN.HARRISON iharrison@sfltimes.com Ever since she was a little girl who would line up her dolls and play school with them, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson has …

By VIVIAN SALAMA Associated Press WASHINGTON – The Obama administration designated three new national monuments (last) Thursday honoring civil rights history as it commemorated Martin …

By PATRICIA SULLIVAN The Washington Post ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The dying afternoon light was just enough to illuminate the little yellow rowhouse now for rent, …

Staff Report Courtesy of Naval History and Heritage Command Yesterday marked the 75th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. In honor of those who …

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT – The Fidel Castro that Sam Riddle and many other African-Americans admired was not the revolutionary dictator who plunged …

By CHIKA ODUAH Republished, TheGrio 11/24/11 You’ll be hard pressed to find the face of an African American in any artistic depiction of that all-too …

By KIMBERLY GRANT In writer/director Jeff Nichols’ interracial love story, Loving, we find two people who are in love and don’t see color in a …

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON – Relatives of Jesse Owens and America’s 17 other black athletes from the 1936 Olympics were welcomed to …

MOHAMED HAMALUDIN The case for reparations by the United States for centuries of slavery and its after- math has been around for more than a …

By KIMBERLY GRANT Special to South Florida Times It’s finally here; the release of the highly anticipated Birth of a Nation. It’s a film that …