President Barack Obama has designated three new national monuments in Alabama and South Carolina to commemorate key events in the country’s Reconstruction era and civil rights movement, the White House announced on Thursday.
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On His Father’s 129th Birthday Marcus Garvey’s Son Seeks Presidential Pardon
Julius Garvey spent Wednesday, his father’s 129th birthday, by taking a note from his social activist handbook.
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The Smithsonian’s African American Museum Tells the Myriad Stories of Black Heroism – Hyperallergic
Being among such a dizzying selection of uplifting stories, you cannot avoid the conclusion that America would not be what it is without all the people represented here.
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Saving a Bit of Black History: 1920s Schoolhouse Survives Demolition Scare, Is Being Renovated Instead – Atlanta Black Star
After decades of abandonment and disrepair, a one-room schoolhouse that served to educate Black children on Georgia’s St. Simons Island in the 1920s is nearing the end of much-needed renovation, thanks to the work of a few preservationists.
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Re-performing the Histories of African American Public Figures
In Written in Smoke and Fire, Edgar Arceneaux reappropriates blackface and examines the legacy of a quasi-sacral figure in national history, Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Making of a Black President
In his January/Febrary 2017 cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores President Barack Obama’s journey to the White House.
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Smithsonian’s Black History Museum Changes Ticket Policy, Extends Hours for Holidays
In an effort to get more visitors through its doors, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., will now make free, same-day visitor passes available online rather than requiring patrons to wait in line.
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The Struggle and Triumph of America’s First Black Doctors
African American physicians have dealt with distrust and misperceptions for more than a century.
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Rare Photographs of the US Civil Rights Struggle Beyond the South
A new book by Mark Speltz brings together over 100 rarely or never-before-published photographs from the Civil Rights era that show its grassroots actions beyond the South.
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When Shirley Chisholm Ran for President, Few Would Say: “I’m With Her”
The congresswoman tried to win the White House by consolidating the black vote and the women’s vote, but she ran into trouble
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