https://twitter.com/EylinHurt/status/813389959411269632 It’s been a pretty intense year when it comes to race in America— and white people have turned out to be the main culprit. A Drexel University professor, who happens to be white, has a long history of supporting racist views towards white people on Twitter and has at times supported genocide, according to some […]

Via Foxbaltimore.com Around 4 a.m on Thursday, a woman was pulled from the Baltimore Harbor once she spotted floating face down in Canton. 53-year-old Elizabeth O’Hearn was a neurology professor at Johns Hopkins University. O’Hearn was pulled out by the 2300 block of Boston St. Read More. Israel Declares Potential War With Hamas Via Twitter […]

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Angela Davis, author, activist, and professor was born in Birmingham, AL, on this date in 1944. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Angela Davis is often associated with the Black Panthers and with the black power politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s. She joined the Communist Party when Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. She was active […]

PITTSBURGH — As a scholar, poet and abolitionist, George B. Vashon broke barriers in the 1800s: he was the first black to graduate from Oberlin College, the first black lawyer in New York state and the first black professor at Howard University.