EMG Inspired Staff, The Epoch Times A snapshot of mid-century South Philly. Featured Image [dropcap]African[/dropcap]-American spirituals are a valuable part of American history. Born out of an oral tradition that reveals Christian values while describing the hardships of slavery from the period of 1600 to 1870, the music and melodies of these songs are still […]
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Their ancestors were enslaved by law. Today, they are graduates of the nation’s preeminent historically black law school. | The New York Times Magazine
— Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine In the history of the United States, black Americans were the only group for whom it was ever illegal to learn to read or write. And so when emancipation finally came, schools and colleges were some of the first institutions that the freed people clamored to build. Black […]
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The 19th Amendment Only Really Helped White Women | Teen Vogue
OG History is a Teen Vogue series where we unearth history not told through a white, cisheteropatriarchal lens.
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For centuries, black music, forged in bondage, has been the sound of complete artistic freedom. No wonder everybody is always stealing it. | The New York Times Magazine
I’ve got a friend who’s an incurable Pandora guy, and one Saturday while we were making dinner, he found a station called Yacht Rock. “A tongue-in-cheek name for the breezy sounds of late ’70s/early ’80s soft rock” is Pandora’s definition, accompanied by an exhortation to “put on your Dockers, pull up a deck chair and […]
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Racial Discrimination Is the Legacy South Philly Can’t Seem to Outgrow | Philly Magazine
The land of Rocky has yet to deal with its history as a notoriously segregated place.
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Jackie Robinson and 10 Other African American Pioneers in Sports | Biography.com
These black athletes broke barriers, represented their communities and made history with their impressive athletic skills.
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Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true. | The New York Times Magazine
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine ARTWORK BY ADAM PENDLETON. Featured Image [dropcap]My[/dropcap] dad always flew an American flag in our front yard. The blue paint on our two-story house was perennially chipping; the fence, or the rail by the stairs, or the front door, existed in a perpetual state of disrepair, but that […]
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Willie Reed, who risked his life to testify in the Emmett Till murder trial, dies at 76 | The Washington Post
Willie Reed did not know Emmett Till, the young black man whose murder in the Mississippi Delta became one of the most infamous lynchings in the history of the Jim Crow South. Mr. Reed saw him only once — on Aug. 28, 1955, during the last hours of Till’s life — in the back of […]
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400 years ago, enslaved Africans first arrived in Virginia | National Geographic
Stolen by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to colonial Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery.
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Noted historian reveals a major omission in college courses | San Francisco Bay View
California community colleges omit Africa and lack equity in their curricula
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