Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
African Americans. MOVE (pronounced like the word "move"), originally the Christian Movement for Life, is a communal organization that advocates for nature laws and natural living, founded in 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by John Africa (born Vincent Leaphart). The name, styled in all capital letters, is not an acronym.
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African-American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam (NOI) until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and ...
yeahphilly .org. Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout, also known as YEAH Philly, is a non-profit community organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that works with teens and young adults who have been impacted by violence. [1] It was founded in 2018 by Kendra Van de Water and James Aye as a Black-led organization in an effort to ...
President Joe Biden launched a nationwide effort to mobilize Black voters during a campaign rally in Philadelphia on Wednesday, aiming to win back support from a slice of the electorate that polls ...
A protester holds up a large black power raised fist in the middle of the crowd that gathered at Columbus Circle in New York City for a Black Lives Matter Protest spurred by the death of George Floyd.
The Brewers Association reports that Black people own 0.4% of the 9,500 breweries in the United States – and brothers […] The post The first Black brewery in Philadelphia opens appeared first ...
Umar Rashad Ibn Abdullah-Johnson (born Jermaine Shoemake; August 21, 1974) is an American Black activist, [1] social media personality, [2] school psychologist, and motivational speaker. [3] A controversial figure, Johnson considers himself a Pan-Africanist who condemns interracial marriage and homosexuality. [4] [5]
W. E. B. Du Bois Portrait by James E. Purdy, 1907 Born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-02-23) February 23, 1868 Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S. Died August 27, 1963 (1963-08-27) (aged 95) Accra, Ghana Citizenship United States Ghana (from 1961) Education Fisk University (BA) Harvard University (AB, PhD) Friedrich Wilhelm University Known for The Souls of Black Folk (1903) Black ...