Cecilia Marshall never imagined that the battle for equal rights in schools and elsewhere would still be as vital today as it was six decades ago when her husband, United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, fought to end legal segregation as a civil rights lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
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Rosa Parks’ Pancake Recipe Will Blow Yours Out Of The Water – Huff Post
There’s peanut butter in there.
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Condoleezza Rice says America was born with a birth defect: Slavery – The Hill
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice compared slavery to a birth defect on Sunday.
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Singer, siren, activist, spy: the extraordinary life of Josephine Baker – History Extra
Born into poverty, dancer Josephine Baker became an overnight sensation in a vaudeville show, launching a glittering cabaret career that took her across the globe, from Broadway to Paris.
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Playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry, was young, gifted and Black – New York Amsterdam News
Finding a female counterpart to the remarkable August Wilson is not easy, but Lorraine Hansberry comes close, and she came to mind additionally as we prepare for Malcolm X’s birthday May 19, which she shared.
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Meet the Democrat who wants to be America’s first black female governor – The Guardian
Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s state house minority leader, hopes to make history – and her track record shows that pushing boundaries is what she does best.
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Little-known ‘Colored Girls Museum’ open in Germantown – Chestnut Hill Local
The Colored Girls Museum, 4613 Newhall St. in Germantown, helps to redress the frequent disregard of black women’s lives and labor.
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James Baldwin’s letters acquired by the Schomburg – New York Amsterdam News
James Baldwin, a native son of Harlem, is home again, at least some of his precious letters and other artifacts are after having been acquisitioned by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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Fla. Apologizes to ‘Groveland Four,’ Men Wrongly Convicted of Rape in 1949 – The Root
In 1949 in Groveland, Fla., four men—Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, Charles Greenlee and Ernest Thomas—were wrongly convicted of raping 17-year-old Norma Padgett in Groveland. Three of the men were imprisoned and another was shot and killed by a group of white men. They became known as the Groveland Four.
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For the Henrietta Lacks Family, It’s a Matter of Who Gets to Tell Their Story – The Root
Who can tell your family’s story? That’s one of the key issues the book and now HBO film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, raises. It’s one that Henrietta Lacks’ son Lawrence and his son, Ron, have been asking for some time now.
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