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The Daughter of the First African-American to Build a Billion-Dollar Company Is Creating Opportunities for Black Boys | Atlanta Black Star

August 30, 2017December 15, 2017African American Commuities, African American Entrepreneurs ...

Intent on leading more Black and Latino high school boys to the coding dance floor, New York City activist Christina Lewis Halpern created All Star Code.

How About Erecting Monuments to the Heroes of Reconstruction? | The American Prospect

August 25, 2017August 25, 2017African American Commuities, African American Culture ...

Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.

In 1965, the city of Charlottesville demolished a thriving black neighborhood | Timeline

August 25, 2017August 25, 2017African American Commuities, African American Families ...

The razing of Vinegar Hill displaced families and dissolved the community.

A Lost Mother & Daughter | The Washington Post (2014)

August 23, 2017August 23, 2017African American Commuities, African American Families ...

In the case of missing 8-year-old Relisha Rudd, emotional scars transcend generations.

How do Americans view poverty? Many blue-collar whites, key to Trump, criticize poor people as lazy and content to stay on welfare | Los Angeles Times

August 22, 2017August 25, 2017African American Commuities, African American Economics ...

Most Americans do not believe that the government bears the main burden of taking care of the poor. Asked who has the “greatest responsibility for helping the poor,” just over one-third said that the government does. That figure has not budged in three decades.