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Jim Crow Compounded the Grief of African American Mothers Whose Sons Were Killed in World War I | Smithsonian Magazine

November 11, 2019January 27, 2020African American History, Black History ...

Smithsonian Books presents ‘We Return Fighting,’ a groundbreaking exploration of African American involvement in World War I

What W. E. B. Du Bois Conveyed in His Captivating Infographics | The New Yorker

November 7, 2019November 19, 2019African American History, African American Photography

In 1893, Ida B. Wells published a pamphlet titled “The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition.” The expo, which lasted for six months, was held in Chicago and was meant to chart the trajectory of the Americas in the four hundred years since Columbus had arrived. Though a handful […]

Telling The Story Of The Apollo Theater | Essence

November 7, 2019November 11, 2019African American Entertainment, African American History

Director Roger Ross Williams spoke to ESSENCE about bringing the story of The Apollo—the “nucleus” of Black culture, music and art—to life.

Ernest J. Gaines, Author of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Dead at 86 | The Root

November 7, 2019November 7, 2019African American Author, African American History

Ernest J. Gaines, a MacArthur fellow best known for the book The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, died at his home in Oscar, La., Tuesday. He was 86. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] In an obituary on their website, the Ernest J. Gaines Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, described the author as leaving behind a […]

Will America’s Universities Point The Way Towards Reparations For Slavery? | Forbes

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019African American History, Reparations

Georgetown University recently announced that it plans to raise around $400,000 a year to pay for reparations. They would go to the descendants of enslaved people who were exploited by Jesuit plantations and who were eventually sold to bring revenue to the university. A number of other universities, including Princeton Theological Seminary, have also announced […]

The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right | Politico

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019African American History, History ...

Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.

Civil Rights, One Person and One Photo at a Time | The New York Times

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019African American Art, African American History ...

The hands of the father and his young daughter wave emphatically: the two are not in agreement. The man talks. His eyes are closed; he looks pained. The child listens, but gazes at a plate of cookies on the dinner table. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The scene is not unusual: a father is telling his daughter that […]

Meet the Black Architect who designed Duke University 37 years before he could have attended it | SHOPPE BLACK

November 1, 2019November 1, 2019African American History, Black History ...

In 1902, when Julian F. Abele graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture, he was the school’s first-ever black graduate. The debonair Philadelphia-born architect went on to design hundreds of elegant public institutions, Gilded Age mansions, and huge swathes of a prestigious then-whites-only university’s campus. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Yet the fact that […]

Woman, 23, who texted her dead father’s phone every day for four years finally gets a text back and discovers she had been sending messages to a bereaved man who lost his daughter in a car crash | Daily Mail

October 31, 2019October 31, 2019African American History, KINDR'D ...

An Arkansas woman who lost her father four years ago but texted his phone every day to share updates on her life, received the shock of her life when one day she got a response from a bereaved man who lost his own daughter in a car crash. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Chastity Patterson, 23, of Newport […]

Rediscovering “The Hampton Album,” a Renowned Record of African-American History After the Civil War | Feature Shoot

October 31, 2019December 13, 2019African American Education, African American History ...

Credited as the first female photojournalist in the United States, Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) received a commission in 1899 to photograph the Hampton Institute, a private historically Black university located in Hampton, Virginia. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Founded in 1868, just four years after the Civil War, the Hampton Institute was dedicated to the education of African-American […]