In 1926, the US historian Carter G Woodson, the son of former slaves, launched Negro History Week to commemorate important people and events from the African diaspora.
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Building America | The Nation
The making of the black working class.
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Discussing Blackness on Reddit? Photograph Your Forearm First | The New York Times
Moderators of an online forum called Black People Twitter have caused an uproar by requiring participants to submit a photograph proving they are not white.
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Hidden Herstory: The Leesburg Stockade Girls | NMAAHC
I never fully realized the monumental role that massive numbers of children played in civil rights protests. Law enforcement arrested and jailed children by the thousands for days, and sometimes months, and their involvement helped to enable one of the greatest legal and social assaults on racism in the 20th century—the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Kamala Harris Reveals Plan To Give Families Six Months Of Paid Medical Leave | Essence
Kamala Harris is doing it for the kids in her latest campaign proposal. Her Children’s Agenda also includes provisions for paid family leave.
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The U.S. Has Been Silencing Black Girls’ Voices for Decades | Teen Vogue
In this op-ed, Juvenile Law Center’s Jessica Feierman and Girls for Gender Equity’s Ashley Sawyer talk about the systemic punishment and arrest of Black girls who speak out about discrimination.
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The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919 | NY Books
In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre in Phillips County, Arkansas, which took place in October 1919, a century ago this week, may rank as the deadliest. The reasons why the event has remained shrouded and obscure, despite a shocking toll of bloodshed inflicted on the African-American inhabitants of Phillips County, […]
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Tuskegee Airman Leslie Edwards dies at Cincinnati VA Hospital | WCPO
WCPO staff, WCPO Leslie Edwards, 93, of Springfield Township, is a Tuskegee Airman who served as a mechanic during World War II. (Photo: The Enquirer/Liz Dufour). Featured Image [dropcap]L[/dropcap]eslie Edwards didn’t talk about his military career during his daughter’s childhood — or her adulthood, for that matter. Imogene Bowers was 50 years old when she […]
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Ga. Woman Pardoned 60 Years After Her Execution | NPR
By Kathy Lohr, All Things Considered, NPR A black maid executed in Georgia in 1945 is being granted a pardon by the state for killing a white man she said enslaved her. Lena Baker said she acted in self-defense, but a jury of white men convicted her after a one-day trial. Baker is the only […]
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Florida Lynched More Black People Per Capita Than Any Other State, According to Report | Broward Palm Beach New Times
Reuben Stacy, a 37-year-old black man, hangs from a tree on Old Davie Road in Fort Lauderdale, blood trickling down his body and dripping off his toes. Behind him, a white girl, about 7 years old, looks on, a strange smile on her face as she takes in the sight of the “strange fruit” her […]
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