Black Main Street Staff, Black Main Street The scene at the corner of 62nd and Larchwood on the afternoon of May 13, 1985, following the dropping of a bomb on MOVE headquarters. Tom Gralish/Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT/Landov.Featured Image On May 13, 1985, at approximately 5:28 p.m., two, one-pound bombs were dropped onto a house at 6221 Osage […]
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Alabama moves to protect the Clotilda, believed to be the last ship to bring slaves to the US | CNN
CNN An Alabama state commission acted Friday to protect the schooner Clotilda, believed to be the last ship to bring enslaved people to the United States from Africa. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Alabama Historical Commission filed a claim under admiralty, or maritime law, in US District Court in Mobile. The claim will ensure that the Clotilda, […]
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Some white people don’t want to hear about slavery at plantations built by slaves | The Washington Post
The nasty online reviews have gone viral on Twitter.
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100 years ago, white mobs across the country attacked black people. And they fought back | CNN
— Christina Maxouris, CNN CNN Thelma Shepherd was riding back to her Chicago apartment on July 27, 1919, when her streetcar came under attack. Black and white men hurled rocks at each other and at the passing vehicle. The 19-year-old who had recently left the South for a job in the bustling city didn’t know it, […]
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How Bessie Smith Influenced A Century Of Popular Music | NPR
— Maureen Mahon, NPR Singer Bessie Smith’s recording career only lasted 10 years, but during that time she created a body of work that helped shape the sound of the twentieth century. Her first single, “Downhearted Blues” — written by two women, pianist Lovie Austin and blues singer Alberta Hunter — was a major hit […]
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The Woman Who Beat The Klan | The New York Times
By Jesse Kornbluth, The New York Times About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or […]
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Garrett Morgan Biography | Biography.com
— Biography.com Staff, Biography_com [dropcap]Garrett[/dropcap] Morgan blazed a trail for African-American inventors with his patents, including those for a hair-straightening product, a breathing device, a revamped sewing machine and an improved traffic signal. Synopsis With only an elementary school education, Garrett Morgan, born in Kentucky on March 4, 1877, began his career as a sewing-machine mechanic. […]
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‘We have a long way to go:’ Descendants of first black Americans on race relations | Reuters
— Angela Moore, Reuters HAMPTON, Va. (Reuters) – Four hundred years after the first ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived on the coast of Virginia, the descendants of one of the first black American families say race relations in the United States still have “a long way to go.” The Tucker family, who trace their ancestry to […]
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America Has a Digital Skills Gap. Libraries Can Help Fix It. | The Atlantic
As branches across the country invest in new technologies and digital services, patrons are increasingly seeing them as go-to hubs for personal and professional development.
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Overlooked No More: Georgia Gilmore, Who Fed and Funded the Montgomery Bus Boycott | The New York Times
Gilmore started the Club From Nowhere, a clandestine group that prepared and sold meals to raise money for the 381-day resistance action.
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