Eighty-four years before Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter traveled from their home in Virginia to wed in Washington, there was another interracial couple who made the same trip for the sake of love.
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#SaveUnderground: Aisha Hinds on Freedom Dreams and Revolutionary Art – The Root
Last week, WGN America announced that it had canceled the critically acclaimed and riveting historical drama Underground. Allegedly moving in a more conservative, programming direction, the network is leaving behind a show that introduced millions of viewers to the relatively unknown network.
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What I Learned About Love from Rereading ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ – PBS
This year marks the 80th anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s best-known novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Though the book is currently hailed as one of the most important in American literature, its initial reception wasn’t completely rosy.
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The most important black woman sculptor of the 20th century deserves more recognition – Timeline
Unfortunately, little of her work survives.
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When this group of black mothers locked themselves in a government office, Boston erupted in riots – Timeline
It was the beginning of the Long Hot Summer of 1967.
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Tracing Your Roots: My ‘Merikin’ Ancestor Escaped Slavery – The Root
Henry Louis Gates Jr. & NEHGS Researcher Meaghan E.H. Siekman | The Root Dear Professor Gates: I was wondering if you could help identify the parents of my five-times great-grandfather Ezekiel Loney, who was among the “Merikins” (formerly enslaved African-American soldiers who fought for the British) who settled in Trinidad. Ezekiel (born 1787) is one […]
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African American Women Writers – ThoughtCo
African American women writers have helped to bring the black woman’s experience to life for millions of readers. They’ve written of what it was like to live in slavery, what Jim Crow America was like, what 20th and 21st century America have been like for black women.
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Colorism as Racism: Garvey, Du Bois and the Other Color Line – Black Perspectives
One hundred years ago this month, Marcus Mosiah Garvey and thirteen associates gathered in a Harlem basement to found the New York branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
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If You’re Woke You Dig It: William Melvin Kelly – Public Books
William Melvin Kelley, the experimental novelist and filmmaker—who mastered and reinvented a kind of midcentury literary style crafted from a colorful array of language and perspectives—died in Manhattan on February 1, 2017, at the age of 79.
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Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement -ThoughtCo
How Jazz Musicians Spoke Out for Racial Equality
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