Tag: civil rights
United Farm Workers, Helen Chavez has passed. 1940-2016
Reel Urban News Remembers:
Helen Chavez, widow of civil rights and farm labor leader Cesar Chavez, died Monday at age 88.
Chavez died at a hospital...
Political Series: We’re Going To Take Our Country Back!
Reel Urban Politics:
Cynthia Shaffer, Political Editor for Reel Urban News, recently spoke with several self identified Republicans from around the nation. Shaffer posed the...
A Reflection from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Something For Sunday
Recently I had the opportunity to visit the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial at the National Mall in Washington D.C.
Two enormous boulders...
Attorney R. Samuel Paz receives the Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Public...
“It’s probably the most important award for me in my life. Johnnie and I started doing police brutality cases back in the 70’s.”
On...
White Students avoid Hate Crime Conviction after placing Bike Lock on...
What happens to racist people the likes of this group of high schoolers who wore shirts that spell out the N-word or these other...
What Is The Worth Of The Black Vote?
Reel Urban News Politics:
From Thomas Mundy Peterson to Barack Hussein Obama much has transpired in our Nation's struggle to manifest fidelity to the Declaration...
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Music And The Movement
Something For Sunday:
While serving as pastor of the Greater True Friendship Baptist Church, Los Angeles, I attempted to get young people to earn college...
Tavis Smiley’s ‘Death Of A King’ Explores Martin Luther King, Jr....
Reel Urban News Remembers:
Tavis Smiley has done it all: Successful entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author, co-host with Cornel West of radio’s Smiley &...
MSNBC Bumps Al Sharpton’s “PoliticsNation” to Weekends
“I’m very happy,” Sharpton says. “I wanted to be Dr. Martin Luther King, not Larry King“
MSNBC bumped Al Sharpton from its weekly lineup on...
Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Rise Of The Phoenix Award
Last evening the Millennium Biltmore Hotel played host to the civil rights organization, National Action Network as they presented their annual ‘Rise Of The...