CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Ohio City is now home to the state’s first LGBT historic marker at West 29th Street and Detroit Avenue. The same intersection is where the LGBT Community Center is located and it’s also where, in 1989, the first Pride festival was held in Cleveland. Kerry McCormack is the Ward 3 Cleveland City […]
KENT, OH (WOIO) – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced the designation of the ‘Kent State University May 4, 1970, Site’ as a National Historical Landmark. The site joins more than 2,500 historic places that bear the national distinction. “As we approach the 50th anniversary of May 4, 1970, this recognition compels us to fully […]
CLEVELAND — A set of 16 postcards from civil rights activist Malcolm X to a woman in Cleveland has been sold at auction for more than $56,000. Nate D. Sanders Auctions says the handwritten cards from 1957, 1958 and 1964 went for $56,426.25 in Los Angeles last week. The cards were written to Gloria Owens. […]
It’s been 51 years since the groundbreaking marches in Selma and Montgomery, Alabama took place. The people from that era who are alive and willing to speak on the civil rights movement are literally walking encyclopedias on what it’s like to fight for freedom against the circumstance of adversity. One of those pillars of knowledge […]
DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The Greater Cleveland Urban League, Greater Cleveland National Action Network, Cleveland NAACP, and the Cleveland Chapter Southern Christian Leadership Conference will sponsor a symbolic March on Washington to commentate the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Civil Rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Wednesday, August 28, 2013 […]
SAN FRANCISCO (RNN) - The cultural war over the definition of marriage reached another milestone Tuesday, as a federal court of appeals ruled California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found Proposition 8, the voter initiative which defined marriage in California as a union between a man and a woman in 2008, to be in violation of the 14th Amendment. "Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples," the ruling said. "The Constitution simply does not allow for 'laws of this sort.'"
*A coalition of Black activists has launched a national campaign they call “Occupy ‘Red Tails’” to spur Americans to go see the monumental George Lucas production of “Red Tails” which based on the story of the Tuskegee Airmen. Judge Kevin Ross, Michael Ajakwe, Najee Ali and several others are petitioning Americans across the country to recognize those who fought to maintain American freedoms and privileges. For over 23 years, Lucas has been trying to tell the story of the courageous Black pilots who transformed the makeup of the military, but Hollywood wasn’t having it. So the big time filmmaker decided to tell the story, using $90 million of his own money to make and market the film.
After his electrifying performance at 2011 The Stellar Awards, Deitrick Haddon has filmed a stunning new music video film, that will secure his place in Gospel Music history.
After his electrifying performance at 2011 The Stellar Awards, Deitrick Haddon has filmed a stunning new music video film, that will secure his place in Gospel Music history.
After his electrifying performance at 2011 The Stellar Awards, Deitrick Haddon has filmed a stunning new music video film, that will secure his place in Gospel Music history.
A bevy of historically black colleges and universities are hemorrhaging too many students while revenue sources have dried up to the point where it threatens their very survival. Legendary radio host and famed HBCU advocate Tom Joyner will launch an ambitious online education initiative to stem the bleeding at the institutions, bring back throngs of […]