Daunte Demetrious Wright, a 20-year-old African American man, tragically lost his life during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Wright was born on October 27, 2000, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to parents Katie Wright and Aubrey Wright.  He had two siblings and attended Patrick Henry High School in 2019 before dropping out. The incident that led to Wright’s death began […]

The Arkansas Freedom Summer, also known as the Arkansas Summer Project, was a pivotal event in the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas during the summer of 1965. It occurred one year after the more famous Freedom Summer in Mississippi. Michael Simmons, a Temple University student at the time, visited the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Inspired […]

Nathan Hare, the founder of The Black Scholar: A Journal of Black Studies and Research and called by many scholars “the father of Black and Ethnic Studies,” was born on April 9, 1933, in Slick, Oklahoma, to Seddie H. Hare, a sharecropper from Arkansas, and Tishia Lee Hare, a housekeeper. Hare’s early education began in 1938 at L’Ouverture Elementary School […]