The beginnings of the blues can be traced to the late 1860s, arguably the most vicious and violent period in the United States.
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Malcolm X Day 2018 | New York Amsterdam News
“History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”— Malcolm X.
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African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century | The Nation
An obscure legal loophole is often to blame.
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This Freed American Slave Founded an African Capital | OZY
Because one of the George Washingtons of Sierra Leone was a former American slave.
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Unseen photographs of civil rights conflict in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 | The Guardian
The Observer dispatched photographer Colin Jones to cover the story and capture the activism centred around the 16th Street Baptist church.
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters is founded, May 8, 1926 | Politico
Under Randolph’s direction, the union enrolled 51 percent of railroad porters within a year.
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The Last Slave | Vulture
In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston sought to publish the story of Cudjo Lewis, the final slave-ship survivor. Instead it languished in a vault. Until now.
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Happy slaves? The peculiar story of three Virginia school textbooks | Richmond Times-Dispatch
If you were a Virginian between fourth and 11th grades from 1957 to the 1970s, you may well have gotten a dose of this official state history. The books were estimated to reach more than a million students.
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A Humble Trailblazer: Meet Mary Alexander, the First African-American Woman to Appear in Coca-Cola Advertising (2013) | Coca Cola
Ask Mary who she is, and she’ll proudly share her many titles: wife, mother, grandmother, former teacher and high school principal.
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The sadism of white men Why America must atone for its lynchings | The Guardian
Until now, the enforcement of white supremacy through racial terrorism in the form of lynching has largely been unrecognised as part of America’s history.
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