You may be surprised to learn that BlackPast.org, the most comprehensive African American and African history website in the nation — and perhaps the world — is based in Seattle.
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Race: Generation Change [Video]
How did Barack Obama symbolise a change for the African-American communities of Washington DC?
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Searching for Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia (The Site of His Insurrection) – VIDEO
Nat Turner, a slave and preacher prone to visions, masterminded one of the most violent and impactful slave rebellions in American history. On the evening of August 21, 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia, Turner led over 70 slaves from plantation to plantation, killing every slave owning white family, including women and children.
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Historic Black School defaced with ‘White Power’ and Nazi Graffiti
A historic one-room school house that once served as a segregated place of learning for black children in Loudoun County was defaced Friday night with the Nazi swastika and references to “white power”.
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“I Am Not Your Negro” film based on James Baldwin book
One of the most artistic and daring political statements at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), was the world premiere of Haitian-born Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, based on James Baldwin’s unfinished book Remember This House.
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‘Allowing America to Confront Its Tortured Racial Past’
[two_fifth padding=”0 35px 0 10px”]‘ALLOWING AMERICA TO CONFRONT ITS TORTURED RACIAL PAST’ BY Clare Foran PUB The Atlantic [/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”][perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″]How the National Museum of African American History and Culture recounts black history in the United States[/perfectpullquote]The Smithsonian Institution museums that dot the National Mall in Washington, D.C. […]
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On Being a Black Female Math Whiz During the Space Race
Growing up here in the 1970s, in the shadow of Langley Research Center, where workers helped revolutionize air flight and put Americans on the moon, Margot Lee Shetterly had a pretty fixed idea of what scientists looked like: They were middle class, African-American and worked at NASA, like her dad.
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Beinecke Celebrates Archive of African American Arts and Letters
African American literary and artistic achievements are showcased in a new exhibition, “Destined to Be Known: The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection at 75,” at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The exhibition runs Sept. 23–Dec. 10 in the library, 121 Wall St. It is free and open to the public.
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The Black Panthers’ Overlooked Revolution
Fifty years later, four women who helped build the party look back on the less-attention-grabbing part of its history.
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Contemporary art exhibit probes African-American Identity
Many people recognize “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” as the title of an 1969 autobiographical novel by Maya Angelou, but Austin artist Deborah Roberts points to the original author of the phrase, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, as the inspiration for the smart group exhibition she’s organized at the George Washington Carver Museum.
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