Kidnapped, torn from his family as a child, and sold as a slave, Olaudah Equiano’s story would become a bestseller of its time, and a catalyst for the abolition of slavery in Britain. Jonny Wilkes explores his story for BBC History Revealed [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Somewhere on the coast of what is now Nigeria, 11-year-old Olaudah […]
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Honoring the ‘Green Book’: A life-saving travel guide for African Americans during segregation | WMCAction News 5
‘If you wandered into a place where African Americans are not welcome…you could end up actually being killed’
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Margaret Lawrence, 105, Dies; Pioneering Black Female Psychoanalyst | The New York Times
She overcame many hurdles, including rejection by Cornell’s medical school, which told her a black man before her “didn’t work out.” (He had died.)
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Found: The Oldest-Known Photograph of Enslaved African Americans With Cotton | Atlas Obscura
The daguerreotype records their faces, but not their names.
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US city to pay reparations to African-American community with tax on marijuana sales | The Telegraph
A city in Illinois has announced it will create a reparations fund for its African American community through a new tax on marijuana sales. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Recreational use of the drug will become legal in the state from January and officials in Evanston, which is 12 miles north of Chicago, have voted to approve a […]
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Harry and Sidney: Soul Brothers | The New York Times
Please allow me to divert my gaze for one day away from our national political darkness and toward two national rays of light. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Monday is Sidney Poitier’s 90th birthday. His best friend of 70 years, Harry Belafonte, turns 90 on March 1. This is an ode to and appreciation of the friendship — […]
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Alabama unveils statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks | AP News
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A new statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was dedicated in Alabama’s capital city on Sunday, the 64th anniversary of her historic refusal to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man. Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed and Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey pulled back a cloth to […]
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The Deacons; the black armed Christians who protected MLK, civil rights supporters before Black Panther | Face2Face Africa
Given that African-Americans were an easy target in the 1950s and 1960s, the Ku Klux Klan – the white supremacist group – had a free reign, terrorizing and even murdering civil rights supporters. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The incessant attacks were so frequent that many civil rights workers armed themselves for self-protection. Even the home of Dr. […]
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Red Summer, 100 years later: Its legacy of racial division and hate is buried in our demography | Daily Kos
The events of Red Summer are important to remember in part because they are representative of the kind of horror that lies within the history of being black in America, a horror most white Americans little understand or appreciate, reinforced by their often willful ignorance. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] However, these events all were noteworthy in another […]
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The Horrible History of Thanksgiving | The New York Times
Before you fill your plate, please remember why we mark this day.
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