Kirsten West Savali, The Root Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]On[/dropcap] June 12, 1963, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith assassinated Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers in the driveway of his Jackson, Miss., home. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Evers’ wife, Myrlie Evers-Williams, and their three children, Darrell, Reena and James, were all inside when they […]
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Black People’s Land Was Stolen | The New York Times
Any discussion of reparations must include how this happened, who did it, and the laws, policies and practices that allowed it.
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What Americans Need to Know About Reparations Ahead of This Week’s Big Hearing | Slate
Devin Katayama, Slate Danny Glover and Ta-Nehisi Coates are scheduled to testify at the hearing Wednesday. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Theo Wargo/Getty Images and Anna Webber/Getty Images for the New Yorker. Featured Image [dropcap]On[/dropcap] Wednesday, a House Judiciary subcommittee will hold the first congressional hearing in more than a decade on the subject […]
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How America Got Its First Black Radio Station | Atlas Obscura
In 1948, Memphis channel WDIA became a community voice and a rock ‘n’ roll star-maker.
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The Woman Who Kept Juneteenth Alive in San Francisco | KQED
Devin Katayama & Ericka Cruz Guevarra,KQED A memorial table at the African American Art and Culture Complex in San Francisco honors community leaders who have passed. Rachel Townsend (center) who died in 2018 is remembered for her activism and organizing of the city’s annual Juneteenth parade. Featured Image [dropcap]San[/dropcap] Francisco’s Juneteenth, a commemoration of the […]
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What Is the Middle Passage? | ThoughtCo.
The History of the Slave Trade Across the Atlantic
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New York City will be home to three new monuments honoring black women | NBC News
Shirley Chisholm, Billie Holiday and Elizabeth Jennings Graham will get statues in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.
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COMMENTARY: U.S. Attempt to Erase Harriet Tubman | The Afro-American
A. Scott Bolden, NNPA Newswire Correspondent, The Afro-American A photograph of Harriet Tubman is seen at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park’s Visitor Center in Church Creek, Maryland. (State Dept./Astrid Riecken). Featured Image [dropcap]With[/dropcap] uniquely American hypocrisy, the Trump Treasury Department has pushed back the 2016 plan to put escaped slave and Underground Railroad […]
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In diverse metro Atlanta, why are less than a quarter of homes black-owned? | Curbed
Only six U.S. cities have lower percentages of black homeowners, analysis finds
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[VIDEO] Celebrating Black History: Incredible innovations | Fox 8 Cleveland
Roosevelt Leftwich, Fox 8 Cleveland [dropcap]CLEVELAND[/dropcap]- African American inventors have made their mark not just on history, but the things that make our lives easier every day. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] From the overhead trolly to the sofa bed, from the super soaker gun to the home surveillance systems these were ideas that patented first by African […]
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