Mayor Marcus Muhammad

Hattie McDaniel accepting her Oscar in a segregated "No Blacks" hotel in Los Angeles for her role in Gone with the Wind. She is the first Black American to win an Oscar.⁣ (1939)

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Selfie 📸 ⚠️...

Biggest betrayal of Black people since the Compromise of 1877 in Hayes vs Tilden Presidential scandal.

@SnoopDogg congratulations 🎊 👏! You deserve a Key 🔑 to the City of the LBC.

#newhousingprojects #countdown #SOTCBH2026 ⌛️ ⏳️ ⌛️ ⏳️ ⌛️

Rare childhood photo of Barack Obama from the 1960s

Join the City of Benton Harbor’s State of the City Address on Tuesday, May 19, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at The Inn at Harbor Shores. Doors will open at 6:30 PM. This special evening will highlight the progress taking place across our city, ongoing initiatives and announcements.

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” #MartinLutherKingJr #MLK #TheKingCenter

For those who are old enough to remember, Elvis Presley released “Hound Dog” in 1956, his biggest worldwide hit record. Few recall that Big Mama Thornton released the song first in 1953.

Chevalier de Saint-Georges aka the "Black Mozart," Joseph Bologne, was a champion fencer, a virtuoso violinist, and a conductor of the leading symphony orchestra in Paris broke barriers in classical music.

Portrait of Caesar, the last black enslaved man in New York State, 1851.

Black History Month Celebration @GovWhitmer residence in Lansing, Michigan February 13, 2023. #ThrowbackThursday

“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.” James Baldwin

Happy Birthday to the Honorable @LouisFarrakhan. The amazing grace of God in plainsight. 93 is a milestone 🙌. If what you look like does not reflect what you have been through was a person.

🔥 WATCH: “You’re making my point — NO! LET ME FINISH.” @ashleyrallison becomes the latest to school hilariously smug @ScottJenningsKY as he gaslights and pretends not to understand carving MEMPHIS is about stripping Black power to choose their own reps no matter their race.

#OTD in 1964 Dad joined @CBSNews’ @FaceTheNation to speak on the Civil Rights Act and the urgency of protecting its strongest provisions. In the interview, he made clear that half measures were not enough when it came to justice.

Thank you, @ReverendWarnock, for welcoming me to Ebenezer Baptist Church today. As legislatures across the South seek to draw Black Americans out of power, we gathered this Sunday to steel ourselves for the work ahead. We will always stand together, and we will not go back.