The razing of Vinegar Hill displaced families and dissolved the community.
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The Whitney Plantation Is The Only Confederate Monument We Should Keep | BuzzFeed
I went to the Whitney Plantation Museum to see if America is ready to reckon with its past.
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The hidden stories of medical experimentation on Caribbean slave plantations | Salon
A French physician working in Cayenne, envied the “numerous plant cures” known to “Indians and Negroes.”
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Dick Gregory, 84, Dies; Found Humor in the Civil Rights Struggle – The New York Times
“You know the definition of a Southern moderate? That’s a cat that’ll lynch you from a low tree.”
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The Oldest African-American City In America Is Celebrating Its 130th Birthday | Okayplayer
Eatonville, which received its charter from the state of Florida in August 1887, was built as a self-governing all-black town for black people living in central Florida at the time.
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Remembering Frederick Isadore Scott, Johns Hopkins’ First Black Undergraduate | Afro
Frederick Isadore Scott, the first African-American undergraduate to earn a degree from Johns Hopkins University, died July 15 at Johns Hopkins Hospital following complications from an infection. He was 89.
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When Jack Daniel’s Failed to Honor a Slave, She Stepped In | The New York Times
LYNCHBURG, Tenn. — Fawn Weaver was on vacation in Singapore last summer when she first read about Nearest Green, the Tennessee slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey.
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The Hoods Are Off | The Atlantic
The “Unite the Right” gathering wasn’t a Klan rally at all. It was a pride march.
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Sabaah Folayan: You Don’t Need to Wait for Permission to Become an Activist | Elle
We speak to the director of a powerful documentary about Ferguson.
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How black grassroots politics led to the 14th Amendment and black citizenship | The Conversation
As the nation seeks to understand the recent violence, and as the Black Lives Matter Movement claims the mantle of black leadership, now is an important time to remember an earlier period of race-based violence and civil rights struggles.
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