Elizabeth McLaughlin, ABC News [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Air Force’s newest aircraft honors the legacy of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, the nation’s first squadron of African American pilots who flew combat missions during World War II. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Acting Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Donovan announced on Monday that the service’s advanced trainer aircraft, the T-X, has […]
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Juanita Abernathy, civil rights icon, dies | AJC
Rosalind Bentley, Ernie Suggs, AJC In this April 18, 1963 file photo, Coretta Scott King, left, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, center, and Mrs. Juanita Abernathy, leave Birmingham jail after visiting Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Dr. Ralph Abernathy in Birmingham, Ala. Juanita Abernathy, who wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery […]
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UVA grants full alumni status to black nurses who earned it decades ago | UVA Magazine
Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, UVA Magazine CLAUDE MOORE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY. Featured Image [dropcap]S[/dropcap]ome 20 years ago, longtime friends Louella Walker (Nurs ’58) and Mary Jones (Nurs ’61) were browsing a former teacher’s estate sale when they unearthed a brown bag filled with black-and-white photos. Staring back at them were their own faces, alongside those of […]
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Busing Ended 20 Years Ago. Today Our Schools Are Segregated Once Again | TIME
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, TIME Accompanied by motorcycle-mounted police, school buses carrying African American students arrive at formerly all-white South Boston High School on September 12, 1974. In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of busing as a mechanism to end racial segregation because black children were still attending segregated schools. White children had […]
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‘Amazing Grace’ and Poor People’s Campaign Embark On Voter Registration Tour | Colorlines
The Aretha Franklin-focused documentary will screen for free in 22 states ahead of the general election.
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How white women’s “investment” in slavery has shaped America today |Vox
White women are sometimes seen as bystanders to slavery. A historian explains why that’s wrong.
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Despite pushback, Charleston historic sites expand their interpretation of slavery | The Post and Courier
Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton, The Post and Courier A row of enslaved people’s homes are still present on McLeod Plantation Historic Site on Monday Aug. 26, 2019, in Charleston. Gavin McIntyre/ Staff. By Gavin McIntyre gmcintyre@postandcourier.com Featured Image [dropcap]In[/dropcap] recent years, Charleston-area historic sites have dramatically increased their interpretation of slavery and its vital role […]
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Mexicans of African Descent Established Los Angeles on This Day in 1781 | Face2face Africa
By D.L. CHANDLER, Face2face Africa [dropcap]The[/dropcap] Los Angeles Pobladores, or “townspeople,” were a group of 44 settlers and four soldiers from Mexico who established the famed city on this day in 1781 in what is now California. The settlers came from various Spanish castes, with over half of the group being of African descent. Governor […]
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The Lost Promise of Reconstruction | The New York Times
Can we reanimate the dream of freedom that Congress tried to enact in the wake of the Civil War?
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The Former Slave Who Sued for Reparations, and Won | The New York Times
Henrietta Wood sued the man who had kidnapped her into slavery for damages and lost wages, offering lessons for today’s debate.
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