Hattie McDaniel is best known as the first African-American to receive an Academy Award. The actress and radio performer has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and her image is on a U.S. postage stamp. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Still, most people aren’t aware that McDaniel was born here, in Wichita. Her birthplace and childhood […]
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Barbara Hillary, First Black Woman to Reach the Poles, Is Dead at 88 | The New York Times
She accomplished both feats in her 70s, after deciding as a retired nurse that she wanted a little adventure in her life.
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Azellia White, trailblazer for African American women in aviation, dies at 106 | The Washington Post
Azellia White, who said she found freedom in the skies, becoming one of the first African American women to earn a pilot’s license in the United States, died Sept. 14 at a nursing home in Sugar Land, Tex. She was 106. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Her death was reported Nov. 18 in the London Daily Telegraph but […]
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The Electoral College’s Racist Origins | The Atlantic
More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.
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He Survived A Near-Lynching. 50 Years Later, He’s Still Healing | NPR, Morning Edition
It was 1965 when Winfred Rembert, then 19, says he was almost killed by a group of white men. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “I’m 71. But I still wake up screaming and reliving things that happened to me,” Winfred, now 73, said. During a 2017 StoryCorps interview, Winfred told his wife, Patsy Rembert, 67, about the traumatic […]
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The Mysterious Death of Boxing’s Most Fearsome Fighter | Daily Beast
The new documentary “Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston” explores the life and curious death of the boxing legend, including his deep mob ties and dubious losses to Ali.
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N.J. sending teachers to visit trans-Atlantic slave sites to teach black history in public schools | The Philadelphia Inquirer
New Jersey public school teachers will get to travel to trans-Atlantic sites associated with the slave trade to learn how to better teach black history — not just in February but year-round — to comply with a decades-old state mandate. The initiative was announced Friday as a new program under the state’s Amistad law, which […]
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Black History Legacy: Mary Eliza Mahoney, The First Black Nurse | Essence
Mary Eliza Mahoney was one of only four students to complete the rigorous graduate nursing program at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, making her the first Black licensed nurse.
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First black congresswoman revered on Capitol Hill 50 years after her election | CBS News
WASHINGTON — It has been 50 years since Shirley Chisholm stared down sexism and racism to become the first black congresswoman in history. Today, members of Congress say they carry her lessons with them. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, told CBS News that Chisholm encouraged those around her to be “tree-shakers” and “changemakers.” […]
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We need to talk about slavery’s impact on all of us | The Guardian
How should we address the longterm trauma that was caused? As professor of the history of slavery, I aim to find out
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