The short documentary “If We So Choose” introduces residents of Athens, Georgia who not only lived through Jim Crow separatism but fought against it and won.
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Antoine Fuqua To Develop Film Based On Black Panther Murdered By Police – Huffington Post
In 1969 Fred Hampton was shot dead during a police raid.
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6 Black Explorers That Will Transform How You See the Ancient World – Atlanta Black Star
Christopher Columbus wasn’t responsible for Africans ultimately coming to America.
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Thurgood Marshall’s widow keeps his legacy alive – New York Amsterdam News
Cecilia Marshall never imagined that the battle for equal rights in schools and elsewhere would still be as vital today as it was six decades ago when her husband, United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, fought to end legal segregation as a civil rights lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
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Rosa Parks’ Pancake Recipe Will Blow Yours Out Of The Water – Huff Post
There’s peanut butter in there.
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Singer, siren, activist, spy: the extraordinary life of Josephine Baker – History Extra
Born into poverty, dancer Josephine Baker became an overnight sensation in a vaudeville show, launching a glittering cabaret career that took her across the globe, from Broadway to Paris.
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James Baldwin’s letters acquired by the Schomburg – New York Amsterdam News
James Baldwin, a native son of Harlem, is home again, at least some of his precious letters and other artifacts are after having been acquisitioned by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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Fla. Apologizes to ‘Groveland Four,’ Men Wrongly Convicted of Rape in 1949 – The Root
In 1949 in Groveland, Fla., four men—Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, Charles Greenlee and Ernest Thomas—were wrongly convicted of raping 17-year-old Norma Padgett in Groveland. Three of the men were imprisoned and another was shot and killed by a group of white men. They became known as the Groveland Four.
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For the Henrietta Lacks Family, It’s a Matter of Who Gets to Tell Their Story – The Root
Who can tell your family’s story? That’s one of the key issues the book and now HBO film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, raises. It’s one that Henrietta Lacks’ son Lawrence and his son, Ron, have been asking for some time now.
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Contact High: Jamel Shabazz On Shooting The Subway – Mass Appeal
“Every squeeze of the shutter release had to be on point.”
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