Long before the Civil Rights marches of 1963 thrust Birmingham, Ala. into the national spotlight, black families along one residential street were steadily chipping away at Jim Crow segregation laws — and paying a price for it.
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Harry Edwards, a giant of sports activism, still has people shook | The Undefeated
50 years ago, he worked with John Carlos and Tommie Smith for Black Power. Now, he’s talking with Colin Kaepernick.
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom review: a monumental biography | The Guardian
David Blight has written a must-read life of the escaped slave who held America ‘to the lightning scorn of moral indignation’
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‘I’m ecstatic’: black liberation prisoner Mike Africa Sr released after 40 years | The Guardian
Member of the radical Philadelphia-based group Move 9, sentenced after violent confrontation with police in 1978, reunited with wife Debbie Africa and son Mike Jr.
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This Abandoned Texas Church Once Destroyed By The Klan Is In A Contest For Revitalization Money | Texas Standard
The San Marcos Baptist church was first burned down by the KKK. Now community members are trying to save its history from being erased by gentrification.
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A Black Motorists’ Guide to Jim Crow America, Newly Relevant | The New York Times Style Magazine
The “Green Book,” a travel manual published between 1936 and 1967 — and now the premise of a film by the same name — feels as necessary as ever.
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Arkansas’ ‘Hidden Figure’ Raye Montague Dies at 83 | Ebony
Arkansas’ own “hidden figure” who worked as an engineer for the U.S. Navy and was seen as a leader for women of color in the engineering field has died at age 83.
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[WATCH] Activists Take Back The Street Named After The Black Mayor Who Bombed MOVE | Colorlines
Philadelphia recently named a street after the city’s first Black mayor, W. Wilson Goode Sr. Activists say that the renaming hurts given that Goode facilitated the fatal 1985 bombing of the home where the Black liberation and environmentalist group MOVE lived. Colorlines captured an October protest imbued with spirituality.
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Letter From The Democrat Plantation | Medium
William Spivey Medium The Old Plantation, John Rose. Featured Image [dropcap]I[/dropcap] argue on the Internet with what I’ll lump together and call Republicans. Most of them are indeed registered Republicans although some prefer only to be called Conservative or Libertarian. As far as I know, I’m the only black regular among the group but being […]
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A slave mother’s love in 56 carefully stitched words | KUOW
Before mother and daughter were separated, Rose gave Ashley a cotton sack. It contained a tattered dress, three handfuls of pecans and a lock of her hair. Rose told Ashley it was filled with love — always.
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