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Sculptor Elizabeth Catlett Dies In Mexico
Sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett, a U.S. expatriate renowned for her dignified portrayals of African-American and Mexican women and who was barred from her home country for political activism during the McCarthy era, has died. She was 96. Maria Antonieta Alvarez, Catlett’s daughter-in-law, said the artist died Monday in a house in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where [...]
What About Black Republicans?
Even though the vast majority of African American voters and lawmakers are Democrats, it may be black Republicans who have the best chance to reach the U.S. Senate or win governorships, at least in the near future. Unlike their counterparts on the other side of the aisle, black Republicans in Congress—few as they are—usually represent [...]
Texas civil rights pioneer’s memory kept alive
The legendary Rev. Claude Black Jr. probably had a notion his papers would hold value to historians someday. The late San Antonio minister, politician and civil rights leader was instrumental in integrating lunch counters and preached a nonviolent struggle for equality. And for about 60 years, he collected thousands of pages of correspondence, sermons, speeches, [...]
Selma to Montgomery: The March Towards Freedom
March 1965, marked a pivotal time for the American civil rights movement, when Martin Luther King led demonstrators to protest the discrimination in voting rights against black Americans in Alabama. The march was begun three times before the demonstrators were finally able to finish it. The first march took place on March 7, 1965, when [...]
Black public workers first laid off by job cuts
African Americans are experiencing the sharpest edge of layoffs of government and other public workers across the country. The worst of these job cuts were at first avoided by the Obama administration’s federal stimulus package that was designed to prevent state and local layoffs. Black public workers are one-third more likely to be laid off [...]
