His vibrant and bold paintings tell stories of liberation, resistance and resilience.
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Hidden Figure | VUMC Voice
In 1964, with little fanfare, Harold Jordan, M.D., became the first African-American resident physician at Vanderbilt. Looking back to that time, he recalls the support of his colleagues and the challenges he faced.
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Detroit House Preserves Memories of a Little-Known Part of Rosa Parks’s Life | The New York Times
When Rosa Parks stayed there in the late 1950s, the house on South Deacon Street in southwest Detroit was modest — two stories high, with white shutters and a chimney peeking from the top.
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The Black novelist history forgot | The Washington Post
Everything changed for Himes with the publication of “If He Hollers Let Him Go” in 1945.
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This black doctor faced down an angry white mob storming his house — and was acquitted of murder | Timeline
Ossian Sweet defended his family, and was arrested for it
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Stevie Wonder Reflects On Motown, God And Prince | NPR
It was hard to convey a message because I was in so much pain.
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The Case Thurgood Marshall Never Forgot | Smithsonian Magazine
Fifty years ago today, Thurgood Marshall became a Supreme Court justice. He kept telling the story of the Groveland Four.
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Harriet Tubman Goes For White Supremacy’s Throat In ‘Harriet Tubman: Demon Slayer’ | Blavity
This comic is what we need right now in the age of #NoConfederate.
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Martin Luther King Jr. statue to rise on Georgia Capitol, as Confederate monuments fall | Chicago Tribune
The sculpted clay was dry and the bronze would soon be cast, but artist Martin Dawe still found himself waking with a start before dawn, worried that he didn’t get the details of the famous man’s face exactly right.
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How About Erecting Monuments to the Heroes of Reconstruction? | The American Prospect
Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.
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