In economic terms, a decision to give up everything in return for nothing is irrational but in human terms it can lead to irreversible change
Some see his work as a form of journalism but it’s to beats that weave between boom bap and trap
Long before Rosa Parks was hailed as the "mother of the civil rights movement," she wrote a detailed account of nearly being raped by a neighbour.
Mildred Jeter Loving was a shy, unassuming black woman who never expected to make history when her landmark 1967 Supreme Court case ended the ban on interracial marriages in the United States. Loving (68) died on May 2 of pneumonia at her home in the town of Milford, Virginia.
The National Civil Rights Museum sits in what was the Lorraine Motel, just beyond the shadows of Memphis’s skyscrapers and the garish neon glow of Beale Street — the main drag made famous by the likes of BB King and James Baldwin. The first words of the first exhibit state: ”Protest against injustice is deeply rooted in the African-American experience.”