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She Was the Only Woman in a Photo of 38 Scientists, and Now She’s Been Identified | The New York Times

March 22, 2018March 22, 2018African American History, African American Women ...

Last week, hundreds of people were engaged in a search for a woman named Sheila.

The Greenwood Food Blockade | Southern Foodways Alliance

March 21, 2018African American Activist, African American History ...

The White Citizens’ Council, SNCC, and the politics of food access

#HerToo: The Story of the DC Woman Who Helped Make Sexual Harassment Illegal | Washingtonian

March 20, 2018African American Activist, African American Women ...

Four decades before #MeToo, Sandra Bundy fought back against the lewd supervisors at her DC job—and won. Her case established sexual-harassment protections for women everywhere.

It’s Not About Guilt: The Moral Imperative of Taking Responsibility | Medium

March 20, 2018African American History, Black History ...

Whatever happened to just grappling with an argument? To actually responding to a position with which you disagree with analysis or facts, or something approximating critical thought?

The first black woman aviator had to leave the U.S. in order to achieve her dreams | Timeline

March 19, 2018April 7, 2019African American History, Black History ...

They called her “Brave Bessie” and although her story inspired generations, her path ended in tragedy.

These Photos Will Change the Way You Think About Race in Coal Country | Yes Magazine

March 19, 2018African American History, Black History ...

The myth that Appalachia is uniformly White lingers, but communities of “Affrilachians” were documented in the 1930s.

Artist Henrietta Snype Preserves African Basket Making Tradition | AFRO

March 19, 2018March 19, 2018African American Culture, African American History ...

One of the most important aspects of African culture kept alive by the Gullah is basket weaving, or basket-making.

Dignity brought to life: Colorized photographs show the everyday life of African Americans who lived side by side with immigrants in Jim Crow-era Nebraska | Daily Mail

March 14, 2018May 22, 2020African American History, Black History ...

Black and white images of African Americans in Lincoln, Nebraska, from 1910-1925 during the New Negro Movement, have been colorized by an online group.

These photos of the Tuskegee Airmen show cool dedication in the face of wartime segregation | Timeline

March 14, 2018May 22, 2020African American History, African American Veterans ...

Photographer Toni Frissell captured these men with a mission

‘The Blood of Lynching Victims Is in This Soil.’ | National Geographic

March 13, 2018November 20, 2019African American History, Black History ...

By preserving soil from sites where blacks died from lynchings, a museum aims to help America acknowledge the racist brutality in its past.