“What to the slave is the Fourth of July," asked Frederick Douglass in his scathing speech at the US Independence Day function on July 5, 1852. These words of a former slave turned author and orator who spearheaded a popular movement to abolish slavery in the US ring true even 171 years on.

Activists have urged California state to provide millions of dollars in compensation to American Black citizens as a means of apologizing for slavery and past injustices.

Protesters demand justice for a Black teenager, who was shot twice and struck in the head by a white man.

Another day and another Black man is mercilessly killed in the United States, writes Marzieh Hashemi.

The death of Keenan Anderson, the cousin of a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, after he was repeatedly tasered by police officers in Los Angeles has sparked a massive outcry in the US.

A black college student is thrown out of her classroom in handcuffs after an argument with a professor in North Carolina at a historically Black institution.

Perhaps the most outstanding tribute to the life and legacy of Imam Musa is more than 50 years of indefatigable and selfless struggle for justice, peace and human rights while persistently advocating the Islamic Revolution across the globe