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Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, 1925–1965) rose from a troubled youth and prison sentence to become the Nation of Islam’s most visible minister and national spokesman, articulating Black nationalism, ...
President Biden issued multiple clemency actions in mid‑January 2025: he pardoned five individuals and commuted two sentences on January 19, 2025, and separately issued additional pardons on January 2...
The phrase “stay woke” began as African American vernacular urging vigilance about racial injustice and community threats, with documented uses as early as the 1920s–1930s and a 1962 New York Times es...
President Biden issued several high-profile clemency actions in mid‑January 2025: he pardoned five individuals (including Marcus Garvey posthumously) and commuted the sentences of two individuals on J...
The transatlantic slave trade forcibly transported roughly 10–12 million Africans across the Atlantic and caused the deaths of about 2 million during the Middle Passage, creating the core of the moder...
President Biden issued thousands of acts of clemency during his term — including blanket proclamations pardoning people convicted of certain federal marijuana offenses (October 2022 and December 2023)...
President Biden’s January 2025 clemency actions included roughly 2,490 commutations announced January 17 and additional pardons and commutations around Jan. 19; publicly released White House lists and...