By Associated Press, NBC News Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole. Featured Image [dropcap]F[/dropcap]ERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. — They called him Fafa. A.L. Lewis loomed large in the Jacksonville childhood of great-granddaughter Johnnetta Betsch Cole and her two siblings. With only an elementary school education, he helped found the Afro-American Life Insurance Co. in 1901 and became Florida’s […]
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UVA grants full alumni status to black nurses who earned it decades ago | UVA Magazine
Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, UVA Magazine CLAUDE MOORE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY. Featured Image [dropcap]S[/dropcap]ome 20 years ago, longtime friends Louella Walker (Nurs ’58) and Mary Jones (Nurs ’61) were browsing a former teacher’s estate sale when they unearthed a brown bag filled with black-and-white photos. Staring back at them were their own faces, alongside those of […]
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Chance the Rapper Opens Up About Meeting His Wife at 9 Years Old: ‘Let’s Get Married!’ | People
“I saw her dancing and I was like, ‘Let’s get married!'” the artist recalled
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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Patriotism Questioned During 9/11 Ceremony: ‘Why Your Confusion?’ | The Root
Jay Connor, The Root The longtime couple have finally become engaged, celebrating with family and friends. (Image via NBC Chicago). Featured Image [dropcap]A[/dropcap]side from doing nothing in response to mass shootings, one of America’s favorite pastimes is touting the virtues of tolerance, diversity, and inclusion. This is a melting pot after all, and post-racial America […]
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Busing Ended 20 Years Ago. Today Our Schools Are Segregated Once Again | TIME
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, TIME Accompanied by motorcycle-mounted police, school buses carrying African American students arrive at formerly all-white South Boston High School on September 12, 1974. In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of busing as a mechanism to end racial segregation because black children were still attending segregated schools. White children had […]
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How The African American Day Parade Has Celebrated Blackness For 50 Years | Blavity
Manseen Logan, Blavity Image Courtesy of Blavity. Featured Image [dropcap]E[/dropcap]very third Sunday in September, a grand parade celebrating everything that is good and Black takes over the Harlem, New York City streets. It’s a pretty big deal. In fact, The African American Day Parade (AADP) has been a big deal, since its debut in 1969 […]
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Locked out of L.A.’s white neighborhoods, they built a black suburb. Now they’re homeless | Los Angeles Times
By Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times Duane Pierfax grew up after World War II in Pacoima, one of the few Los Angeles suburbs that offered the American dream of home ownership to African Americans who had been locked out of other neighborhoods by racial covenants. His stepfather worked at Lockheed Martin to support the family […]
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Thinking, Thinking, Looking and Looking | Lapham’s Quarterly
On Gordon Parks’ camera and what it saw.
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Police in Alabama planted drugs and guns on over 1,000 innocent Black men | Rolling Out
A.R. SHAW, Rolling Out Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photo by Michael Blann/Thinkstock. Featured Image [dropcap]B[/dropcap]lack men in Alabama were racially profiled and made criminals by a group of racist police. According to the Henry County Report, the incidents occurred in Dothan, Alabama where at least 12 White police officers involved. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The officers […]
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‘Amazing Grace’ and Poor People’s Campaign Embark On Voter Registration Tour | Colorlines
The Aretha Franklin-focused documentary will screen for free in 22 states ahead of the general election.
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