Faced with a rising national wave of opioid addiction and its consequences, families, law enforcement and political leaders around the nation are linking arms to save souls. But 30 years ago, it was a different story.
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Roger Wilkins, Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 85 – The New York Times
Roger Wilkins, who championed civil rights for black Americans for five decades as an official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, a foundation executive, a journalist, an author and a university professor, died on Sunday in Kensington, Md. He was 85.
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“What Does It Mean to Be Black and Look at This?” A Scholar Reflects on the Dana Schutz Controversy – Hyperallergic
Christina Sharpe says the issue at the heart of the dispute over the Emmett Till painting is not representation so much as intimacy and our relationship to violence.
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575,000 Images by Civil Rights Photographer Bob Adelman Go to Library of Congress – Hyperallergic
The institution has acquired a massive archive of Adelman’s work, including his 1960s photographs of the Civil Rights Movement.
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The Enduring Struggle – The Nation
For Frederick Douglass, the work of democratic politics was never-ending.
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Watch the Oldest-Known Surviving Film by an African-American Director – Smithsonian Magazine
Within Our Gates was Oscar Micheaux’s response to a racist classic.
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This Colorado Town Shows Off A Forgotten Piece Of African-American History – KCUR 89.3
Blink while driving on Highway 34 east of Greeley, Colorado, and you might miss the former Great Plains town of Dearfield.
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Saving Nina Simone’s Birthplace as an Act of Art and Politics – The New York Times
For those who knew that 30 East Livingston Street was the birthplace of Tryon’s most famous resident — the singer, soul legend and civil rights icon Nina Simone — the house’s appearance on the market late last year crystallized fears that its existence, as stubborn as that of Simone herself, might be coming to an end.
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200 years of groundbreaking African American art – in pictures – The Guardian
From Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African American painter to move to Paris and be accepted into the Salon, to superstars of today like Kara Walker, here’s how generations of artists have tackled race, identity and prejudice.
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#BringHarrietHome – Harriet Tubman Home Announces First-Ever Crowdfunding Effort
A previously unrecorded photograph of the trailblazing abolitionist is going to auction later this month, and the Harriet Tubman Home historic site hopes to be the top bidder.
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