today in black history

A white mob attacked a bus of Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Alabama in 1961; an event that sparked the movement that year.

Smithsonian

July 14, 2009

books
- Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics 2008
  Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data
media
- Justice for the Central Park Five
  NorthStar Network Editorial from October 2002
- DC Voting Rights
  A NorthStar Network news report on voting rights in the nation's capital
organizations
documents
- 2007 Annual Jobs Report
- National Opinion Poll on Social Security
  One of the foremost Black think tanks provides a snapshot of Black public opinion on Social Security in 1998.
- HIV/AIDS Today, Issue 7
  AIDS & Sub-Saharan African
- Black Elected Officials, 1998
  One of the foremost Black think tanks looks at the status of Black elected officials in 1998
- Unlocking America
  A report exploring the social cost of mass incarceration to the nation