Brown was the chairperson of the party from 1974-1977 while Huey Newton was in exile in Cuba, appointed by Newton himself. She most notably expanded the BPP’s objectives to include matters of importance to black women.
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[VIDEO] When James Baldwin Met Bill Buckley | The Atlantic
(2012) “The problem in Mississippi isn’t that too few Negroes can vote, it’s that too many whites can”
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Her Ancestor Was a Slave to Cherokee Indians. Now She’s Applying to Be a Citizen of the Tribe | Yes Magazine
A landmark decision offers opportunity for healing between descendants of slaveholders and slaves.
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Dr. Carla Hayden Talks Making History As The First Woman And First African-American To Become Librarian Of Congress | Essence
We’re proud to help celebrate Carla Hayden as part of the TIME Firsts series, highlighting phenomenal from multiple industries who broke barriers and made history.
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Condoleezza Rice recalls racial blast that killed childhood friend | Reuters
(2013) BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – When a church bombing killed four young black girls on a quiet Sunday morning in 1963, life for a young Condoleezza Rice changed forever.
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Remember Aunt Harriet | NPCA
She taught them courage and endurance. Now, Harriet Tubman’s descendants can pay their respects at a park honoring the great liberator.
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The story of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, America’s first black pop star | The Conversation
Largely self-taught as a singer, she began her concert career in New York with the support of the Buffalo Musical Association. In Buffalo, she was saddled with the nickname “the Black Swan,” a crude attempt to play off the popularity of Jenny Lind – known as “the Swedish Nightingale” – who was wrapping up one of the most popular concert tours in American history.
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Slave’s daughter who helped open the African American Museum dies at 100 | The Washington Post
Ruth Odom Bonner was 99 when she grasped the rope of the old Baptist church bell and started it tolling across the Mall last fall before a gathering of thousands.
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Ruby Bridges, the first African-American to attend a white elementary school in the deep South, 1960 | Rare Historical Photos
On the road to Civil Rights, even children became public figures, such as six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans on November 14, 1960.
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‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’: Film Review | Venice 2017 | The Hollywood Reporter
Documentarian Nancy Buirski traces this shameful 1944 incident and the legal fiasco that followed, honoring a woman of color who dared to speak out after being sexually assaulted by a group of white youths.
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