The latest look at Barry Jenkins’ upcoming film illuminates how Baldwin’s characters build community while navigating uncertainty and trauma.
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Frank E. Petersen, First Black General in Marines, Dies at 83 | The New York Times
Frank E. Petersen Jr., who suffered bruising racial indignities as a military enlistee in the 1950s and was even arrested at an officers’ club on suspicion of impersonating a lieutenant, but who endured to become the first black aviator and the first black general in the Marine Corps, died on Tuesday at his home in Stevensville, Md., near Annapolis. He was 83.
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Meet the gallant all-black American female battalion that served in Europe during World War II | Face2Face Africa
The success of the formation of the all black female battalion was thanks to Mary McLeod Bethune, an African American civil rights activist who at the time, appealed to the then-first lady of America, Eleanor Roosevelt, to create more meaningful roles for black women in the army to help balance out the shortage of soldiers.
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Eyewitness to the Desolation of ‘Black Wall Street’ | The New York Times
A woman who survived the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 reminds us that history doesn’t stay stuck in time.
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Oldest Known Drawing by Human Hands Discovered in South African Cave | The New York Times
The artifact, which scientists think is about 73,000 years old, predates the oldest previously known modern human abstract drawings from Europe by about 30,000 years
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Harlem’s mission to rename streets after black women before it’s too late | The Guardian
As an intersection is renamed in Zora Neale Hurston’s honor, historians are fighting to preserve the Harlem black elite’s legacy so residents will be mindful of who existed before them.
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James Baldwin: How To Cool It | Esquire
In Esquire’s July 1968 issue, published just after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., the magazine talked to James Baldwin about the state of race relations in the country. On what would be the author’s 93rd birthday, we’ve republished the interview in full—and his words are incredibly relevant today.
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Arthur Ashe’s real legacy was his activism, not his tennis | The Guardian
We remember Ashe for his electrifying talent. But he had a social conscience that was way ahead of its time
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‘It’s hidden history’: the race to save one man’s collection of black Americana | The Guardian
From a slave’s collar to segregation signs, Oran Z has spent years collecting often shocking mementoes of America’s racial struggles. Now it all lies in shipping containers – and no institution will touch it
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Documenting ‘Slavery by Another Name’ in Texas | The New York Times
An African-American burial ground recently unearthed in Texas reveals details about an ugly chapter in the history of the American South.
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