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A Forgotten Lynching In Atlanta | WABE 90.1
By Stephannie Stokes, WABE 90.1 The first country-wide memorial to African-American victims of lynching opened last year in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. While it’s called the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the site is not government funded. It was built by the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal nonprofit that defends against wrongful convictions and racial discrimination. […]
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‘Watchmen’ recreates the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, exposing viewers to an ugly chapter | NBC News
The facts of the Tulsa massacre appeared to have been unknown to many “Watchmen” viewers, who expressed their disbelief on social media.
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Birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | Equal Justice Initiative
By EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On April 15, 1960, black college students guided by civil rights activist Ella Baker formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at Shaw University in North Carolina. Inspired by the sit-ins that college students waged throughout the South in February 1960, Ella Baker organized a conference at Shaw University to bring […]
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Body of US Rep. Cummings will lie in state at Capitol | PBS
BALTIMORE (AP) — The body of the late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings will lie in state in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol next week. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office said in a news release that a formal ceremony open to members of Congress, the Cummings family and invited guests will […]
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How I got revenge on a plantation tour | The Guardian
Nygel Turner recounts the weird, emotional experience of touring of a former slave plantation with his dad and uncle
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Emmett Till: new memorial to murdered teen is bulletproof | The Guardian
A new memorial to Emmett Till was dedicated on Saturday in Mississippi after previous historical markers were repeatedly vandalized. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The new marker is bulletproof. Till, 14, was kidnapped, beaten and killed in 1955, hours after he was accused of whistling at a white woman. His body was found in a river days later. […]
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‘Mormon Land’: The life of Jane Manning James — from her quest to be sealed to Joseph Smith to her patriarchal blessing by Hyrum Smith and her legacy for black Latter-day Saints | The Salt Lake Tribune
By Staff, The Salt Lake Tribune When historian historian Quincy Newell was researching 19th-century African American Mormons, one name kept popping up: Jane Manning James. This African American convert, who worked in church founder Joseph Smith’s household and eventually was “sealed” to him as a “servant,” probably still ranks as the most famous black female member […]
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Why We Need A Serious Reeducation On Slavery | Blavity
Our education systems tend to provide students with a truncated version of the actual horrors of slavery.
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Rep. Elijah Cummings, Democratic leader and regular Trump target, dies at 68 | The Washington Post
Elijah E. Cummings, a Democratic congressman from Maryland who gained national attention for his principled stands on politically charged issues in the House, his calming effect on anti-police riots in Baltimore, and his forceful opposition to the presidency of Donald Trump, died early Thursday morning at Gilchrist Hospice Care, a Johns Hopkins affiliate in Baltimore. […]
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