WASHINGTON, DC (July 19, 2020) – Today, Thomasina W. Yearwood, President and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall Center Trust, Inc. (TMCT), offers her thoughts regarding the death of civil rights icon, Rep. John Lewis.    “As condolences continue to pour in, I, too, confess that my heart remains heavy as our community, nation and the world acknowledge the loss of the final member of the Civil Rights Movement’s ‘Big Six’ – Congressman John Lewis –  the last living soldier to speak to the cause for true equality and justice for all during the historic March on Washington.”  “True to his God-given calling, John Robert Lewis, illustrated the importance of opening […]

WASHINGTON, DC (July 19, 2020) – Today, Thomasina W. Yearwood, President and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall Center Trust, Inc. (TMCT), offers her thoughts regarding the death of civil rights warrior, the Rev. C.T. Vivian.   “Today, I join millions of others from across the nation and the world in mourning the loss of an ardent soldier and leader in the Civil Rights and Human Rights Movements – the Rev. C.T. Vivian. In his decades of service in the quest for justice for all, he inspired us all while putting his very life on the line to register African Americans to vote in Selma, Alabama and across the South, participating […]

Film Screening, Panel Focus on Music and Activism of Mavis Staples By Sam P.K. Collins Founder and Host of AllEyesOnDC.com @SamPKCollinsmensclub24 Photo: Mavis Staples (Courtesy)  “You can’t have a movement without music!” Isisara Bey, executive producer of the annual March on Washington Film Festival told an audience of more than 100 music aficionados who gathered in the lobby of NPR headquarters in Northwest during the festival’s “Black Radio and Civil Rights” event earlier this week. What transpired later that Tuesday evening would speak to the spirit of Bey’s words. After enjoying the musical stylings of Victoria Purcell, Byron Nichols, Robert Ellis, and the NEWorks House Band, guests followed Bey and other […]

Community Members Celebrate Kwame Ture’s 75th Birthday By Sam P.K. Collins Founder and Host of AllEyesOnDC.com @SamPKCollinsКак составить семантическое ядро для сайта By the end of his life, Kwame Ture cemented a legacy as a master organizer and staunch Pan-Africanist. As a leader of the All African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), he helped internationalize the Black freedom struggle and inspired countless young people in the process. On what would’ve been his 75th birthday, a cadre of former colleagues and mentees gathered at Sankofa Video Books & Cafe on Georgia Avenue in Northwest to remember Ture and ensure that today’s grassroots activists keep his memory alive in the ongoing fight for […]

PHOTO: Actor and award-winning humanitarian Jesse Williams/ Courtesy КАК Я НАШЕЛ СВОЙ БИЗНЕС У СЕБЯ ДОМА By now, most, if not all of the African world has watched or heard about Jesse Williams’ five-minute oratorical masterpiece at the BET Awards earlier this week. Upon accepting the 2016 BET Humanitarian Award, Williams, a Black actor who rarely minces words in his analyses of domestic racial affairs, called out the United States for the litany of crimes it commits against Black people. A multi-ethnic audience of his wealthy and famous peers, and much of Black America, listened as he… Full article here.

Community College Preparatory Academy, the only adult charter school in the United States, gives adults of all ages living east of the Anacostia River an opportunity to attain their high school diploma and prepare for college-level work see here. Connie Spinner, founding executive director, launched the program after seeing students struggle at the University of the District of Columbia. This video features commentary from Spinner and students enrolled at Community College Preparatory Academy.http://rpk-tramplin.ru

#OurLivesMatter: One Year Later By Sam P.K. Collins Founder and Host of AllEyesOnDC.com @SamPKCollinskahovka-service.ru If there’s any doubt that District youth want to quell violence in their community and boost civic engagement among their peers, young people at a local recreation center are slowly but surely laying those concerns to rest, all the while sharpening their leadership skills. Since launching the #OurLivesMatter campaign at the FBR Branch of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington more than a year ago, this special group of students has engaged 600 middle and high schoolers in discussions about systemic inequality, cultural heritage, conflict resolution, and other topics. With the guidance of adult leaders, […]

Police Union Contracts: The Ultimate Get-out-of-Jail Free Card By Sam P.K. CollinsКрышки The 2014 state-sanctioned murder of Chicago teenager Laquan McDonald, like other shootings of its kind across the country, revealed the lengths that city and state political leaders will go to absolve police officers of any responsibility in the callous execution of black people. Shortly after Officer Jason Van Dyke pumped 16 bullets into McDonald, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, in the midst of a reelection campaign, and his colleagues on the City Council secured a $5 million settlement for McDonald’s family. Officials also delayed the release of the dash cam footage that prosecutors would later use to charge Van […]

Black College Students Show the Power of Unity By Sam P.K. Collins Founder and Host of AllEyesOnDC.com @SamPKCollinsinfolio-rg.ru If there has been any doubt about the power of grassroots organizing, a recent gathering at Howard University (HU) ’s Blackburn Center, has, to some degree, given some hope to the disillusioned. For much of the day on Friday, Dec. 4, student leaders and administrators from a bevy of local universities engaged in raw, thought-provoking dialogue with their administrators about problems black students face on campus. These talks bore some similarity to those I participated in at the height of my undergraduate career at The George Washington University (GW). This daylong event […]