Mary Church Terrell is a figure in African-American and women’s history worth celebrating. Born in Memphis, Tennessee on September 23rd, 1863, Terrell would go on to be one of the first African American women to attend Oberlin College.
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The SCAD Museum of Art Celebrates the Legacy of Jacob Lawrence | Hyperallergic
SCAD commemorates the centennial of the artist’s birth with a landmark group exhibition, on view through February 4, 2018.
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Lorraine and Eugene Williams: A civil rights power couple | The Daily Progress
Lorraine and Eugene Williams, the Charlottesville couple whose civil rights work helped desegregate city schools and whose business focused on fair and affordable housing, are the recipients of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 2017 award for diversity.
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(2011) Art Porter Jr.’s 50th Birthday Celebration
Aug. 3 would have been Little Rock-born jazz musician Art Porter Jr.’s 50th birthday. The saxophonist died in a boating accident in Thailand in 1996, not long after performing at a festival celebrating the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
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This black father won equal education for his daughter, 100 years before the Supreme Court’s ruling | Timeline
Absalom Boston was an affluent whaling captain in Massachusetts.
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Watch: Reri Grist’s voice took her from the projects to the world’s most famous opera stages | Timeline
A soprano who got her start on ‘West Side Story’
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When Affirmative Action Isn’t Enough | The New York Times
Because race-based discrepancies in academic achievement emerge in early childhood, “college is way too little, too late to source the pipeline”
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Meet Phillis Wheatley | The Gospel Coalition
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784), a poet and the first African-American woman published in pre-Revolutionary America, was also a notable apologist, abolitionist, and missionary.
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The overlooked story of 104 African American doctors who fought in World War I | The Washington Post
By the time Louis T. Wright headed to France as an Army doctor, he was accustomed to discrimination — and accustomed to fighting it.
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Memoir of Elaine Brown, the only woman to lead the Black Panther Party, set to be adapted for film | Shadow & Act
Brown was the chairperson of the party from 1974-1977 while Huey Newton was in exile in Cuba, appointed by Newton himself. She most notably expanded the BPP’s objectives to include matters of importance to black women.
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