African Americans

Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer who defied bus segregation, dies at 86

Although she remained a largely unsung figure in the civil rights movement for decades, Colvin's 1955 act of rebellion inspired Parks and others.

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Claudette Colvin, who was attending Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in 1955 when she was arrested for not giving up her seat on a Montgomery city bus, visits the school in Montgomery, Alabama, US February 3, 2005.
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers move in on demonstrators in front of LA City Hall during a protest against federal immigration sweeps in downtown Los Angeles, California, US June 8, 2025.

Why do police mistake phones for guns? Racial bias in the brain, study finds

This new study suggests that there is a different neurological response in people of all races when they see the same tool associated with the face of a black or white person.

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Hampton University.

US Black colleges and universities say they restricted campus activity after threats

Alabama State University, Hampton University, Virginia State University, Southern University, and A&M College, and Bethune-Cookman University locked down their campuses.

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TWO JEWISH students hold up signs which read ‘Bring them home now’ and ‘Let us grieve,’ as they counter pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside Columbia University, in New York City, on the first day of the new semester, last Tuesday.

Crown Heights residents defy radical antisemitic, anti-Chabad rally in New York

Crown Height Bites Back organized a rally calling for a riot against the Chabad community. They met with defiance by African-American residents and Jewish neighborhood watch groups.

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Kanye West claims Planned Parenthood, KKK conspired to 'control Jew population'

Kanye doubled down on unsupported claims that "the people known as the race black really are" Jews in footage cut from his recent Fox News interview.

OCTOBER 12, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Kanye West during the Cincinnati Bengals game against the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium

Supreme Court judge nominee speaks about Jewish-Black alliance

Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominee to Supreme Court judge, spoke about the special circumstances in which her school was founded.

MARCH 23, 2022ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2022.

Black-Jewish ties can’t be allowed to falter - opinion

Black and Jewish people in the US have a long history of kinship with one another, based on shared minority status, and experiences of discrimination and bigotry.

FEBRUARY 28, 2022ByERIC FINGERHUT, MARGARET MITCHELL
A man holds a flag with the words Black Lives Matter during a protest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, US, August 27, 2020.

27% decline in Black Protestant approval of Biden - new Pew analysis

Between March 2021 and January 2022, Black Protestant approval of the president fell from 92% to 65%, the survey showed.

FEBRUARY 20, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Bishop Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church, speaks to the media following a meeting between the Circle of Protection, a coalition of Christian denominations, at the White House

How God, Martin Luther King brought a ‘Bishop of Israel’ to the Holy Land

Meet Bishop Glenn Plummer, a man on a mission to bring Black American Christians to Israel.

FEBRUARY 19, 2022ByRIVKAH LAMBERT ADLER
Bishop Glenn Plummer

Zionists helped defeat segregation in Baltimore - opinion

This story began in the autumn of 1946, when the Zionist activists known as the Bergson Group sponsored a Broadway play called 'A Flag is Born.'

JANUARY 12, 2022ByRAFAEL MEDOFF
Child survivors of the Holocaust ride aboard the S.S. Ben Hecht.

Louisiana governor to pardon plaintiff in landmark racial segregation case

Homer Plessy was arrested 1892, setting off a chain of events that led to the 1896 Supreme Court case.

JANUARY 5, 2022ByREUTERS
AN AFRICAN AMERICAN uses a ‘colored’ water fountain in Segregation-era American South.

The secret of Zionism’s success, we did it ourselves - opinion

Ben-Gurion was building a nation – and healing a people. He felt he needed to impose a new model, the New Jew, on everyone.

DECEMBER 7, 2021ByGIL TROY
THEN-ISRAELI AMBASSADOR to the US Gilad Erdan visits the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington earlier this year.

Meet the African-American philanthropist promoting Jewish values

Robert Smith is the chairman of the board of Carnegie Hall and the world’s foremost African-American philanthropist.

NOVEMBER 15, 2021BySHMULEY BOTEACH
The Carnegie Hall

Ambassador Erdan calls to strengthen ties with US minority communities

Erdan toured the National Museum of African American history for over three hours, learning about slavery, the civil war, and the Civil Rights.

AUGUST 24, 2021ByOMRI NAHMIAS
Erdan touring the National Museum of African American History and culture, last week.