The Howard Wolverton Collection of Black Americana featuring artifacts and treasures of Black American history will be auctioned off Thursday in Falls Church. The collection includes items reminiscent of our country’s shameful past of hatred and racism.
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The forgotten assassination of Dr. King’s mother – Rolling Out
Every American student knows that Dr. Martin L. King Jr. was assassinated by James Earle Ray, but very few are aware of the murder of his mother, Alberta Williams King.
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The Birthmark of Damnation: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Black Body – Viewpoint Magazine
In a widely replicated gesture, Coates locates the experience of racism in the body, in a racism that “dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth.”
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10 Thriving Black Towns You Didn’t Learn About In History Class – Atlanta Black Star
African American innovations were not touched upon enough by our history teachers.
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African Americans in the armed forces – in pictures – The Guardian
From the civil war to Iraq, African Americans have played a key role in the US military.
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A brief visual history of black Muslims in Chicago – Chicago Reader
During the 1960s, in the midst of the civil rights movement against segregation and discrimination, the teachings of the Nation of Islam extended beyond the fight for equality to include racial self-reliance, discipline, and economic independence.
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A Half-Century After His Untimely Death, Iconic Soul Man Otis Redding Still Soars – Atlanta Black Star
Redding wrote his own music in an era when many African-American artists did not or were not allowed to.
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If We So Choose – Southern Foodways Alliance
The short documentary “If We So Choose” introduces residents of Athens, Georgia who not only lived through Jim Crow separatism but fought against it and won.
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Antoine Fuqua To Develop Film Based On Black Panther Murdered By Police – Huffington Post
In 1969 Fred Hampton was shot dead during a police raid.
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6 Black Explorers That Will Transform How You See the Ancient World – Atlanta Black Star
Christopher Columbus wasn’t responsible for Africans ultimately coming to America.
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