The United States Postal Service will immortalize the Smithsonian National Museum of African American and Culture on a Forever stamp slated to be issued next week.
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Black-ish Embraces the Urgency of History | The Atlantic
The show’s fourth-season premiere, “Juneteenth: The Musical,” is a comedy. And a work of education. And an indictment.
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Watch: An all-black musical gave Dorothy Dandridge a groundbreaking role in Hollywood history | Timeline
It was a crucial juncture in her career, a career during which she’d endured countless humiliations…
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In honor of civil and women’s rights activist Mary Church Terrell | Hello Giggles
Mary Church Terrell is a figure in African-American and women’s history worth celebrating. Born in Memphis, Tennessee on September 23rd, 1863, Terrell would go on to be one of the first African American women to attend Oberlin College.
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The SCAD Museum of Art Celebrates the Legacy of Jacob Lawrence | Hyperallergic
SCAD commemorates the centennial of the artist’s birth with a landmark group exhibition, on view through February 4, 2018.
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Lorraine and Eugene Williams: A civil rights power couple | The Daily Progress
Lorraine and Eugene Williams, the Charlottesville couple whose civil rights work helped desegregate city schools and whose business focused on fair and affordable housing, are the recipients of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 2017 award for diversity.
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This black father won equal education for his daughter, 100 years before the Supreme Court’s ruling | Timeline
Absalom Boston was an affluent whaling captain in Massachusetts.
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Watch: Reri Grist’s voice took her from the projects to the world’s most famous opera stages | Timeline
A soprano who got her start on ‘West Side Story’
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Meet Phillis Wheatley | The Gospel Coalition
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784), a poet and the first African-American woman published in pre-Revolutionary America, was also a notable apologist, abolitionist, and missionary.
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The overlooked story of 104 African American doctors who fought in World War I | The Washington Post
By the time Louis T. Wright headed to France as an Army doctor, he was accustomed to discrimination — and accustomed to fighting it.
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