Christian Cooper, the bird-watching Black man who was the target of false accusations during an encounter in New York City’s Central Park in 2020, has a new TV show airing on National Geographic. The channel announced that Cooper, a lifelong bird-watcher, will host a series called Extraordinary Birder.
Nearly 60 years after his conviction on what he claimed were racist and retaliatory federal charges, the first Black U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to a presidential detail has been pardoned by President Joe Biden. Chicagoan Abraham Bolden, 87, who served on the security detail for President John F. Kennedy, was among 78 people granted pardons or commutations of their…
After more than 100 years of effort and 200 bills that failed, legislation to designate lynching a federal hate crime passed Congress on Monday and will head to President Biden for a signature. The measure passed the Senate by unanimous consent, meaning none of the 100 senators objected. It cleared the House last month in a 422—3 vote. This bill would…
As Women’s History Month kicks off, the Dallas Public Library hosted an online event Thursday recognizing an overlooked group in North Texas: missing and murdered indigenous women. Four out of five American Indian and Alaskan Native women have experienced violence, the National Institute of Justice reports. American Indian women are murdered at rates that are 10 times the national average, according to…
The House’s overwhelming support of legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime directly addresses the history of racism and bigotry in the US, the bill’s sponsor said. Lawmakers passed the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act on Monday in a 422-3 majority. A similar bill was first introduced by Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois two years ago but was…
Forensic scientists and archaeologists investigating a mass grave near the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre have unearthed skeletal remains, including that of a Black man with multiple gunshot wounds to his head and shoulder, officials announced Friday. The remains were initially found in October, when authorities were excavating the Black section of Oaklawn Cemetery as part of the…