He was sentenced to life without parole at 17. Fifty years later, the Supreme Court weighs setting him free.
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Mexicans of African Descent Established Los Angeles on This Day in 1781 | Face2face Africa
By D.L. CHANDLER, Face2face Africa [dropcap]The[/dropcap] Los Angeles Pobladores, or “townspeople,” were a group of 44 settlers and four soldiers from Mexico who established the famed city on this day in 1781 in what is now California. The settlers came from various Spanish castes, with over half of the group being of African descent. Governor […]
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The Lost Promise of Reconstruction | The New York Times
Can we reanimate the dream of freedom that Congress tried to enact in the wake of the Civil War?
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Baxter Leach, key member of Memphis’s striking sanitation workers, dies at 79 | The Washington Post
Adrian Sainz, The Washington Post Former sanitation worker Baxter Leach, 78, also did mechanic work and picked cotton to help make ends meet. Yalonda M. James / The Commercial Appeal. Featured Image [dropcap]Baxter[/dropcap] Leach, a prominent member of the Memphis sanitation workers union whose historic strike drew the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the […]
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Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan: the story behind the photograph that shamed America | The Telegraph
David Margolick, The Telegraph Elizabeth Eckford (right) attempts to enter Little Rock High School on Sept. 4, 1957, while Hazel Bryan (left) and other segregationists protest. Featured Image [dropcap]On[/dropcap] her first morning of school, September 4 1957, Elizabeth Eckford’s primary concern was looking nice. Her mother had done her hair the night before; an elaborate […]
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Breaking Barriers in Ballet: Misty Copeland Set to Receive Trailblazer Award | Black Press USA
Lauren Poteat, Black Press USA Photograph of author, entertainer, and American ballet dancer Misty Copeland photographed for Time on February 24th, 2015 at the American Ballet Theater in New York. Sebastian Kim for TIME. Featured Image [dropcap]N[/dropcap]NPA NEWSWIRE — Determined to shatter the glass ceiling of the ballet world, on Sep. 11, the Congressional Black […]
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The Book Of Prince | The New Yorker
Da Piepenbring, The New Yorker “We Bangles hovered around the cassette machine… and we were smitten with the song,” Bangle Susanna Hoffs says of first hearing Prince’s demo of “Manic Monday.” Virginia Turbett/Courtesy of The Prince Estate. Featured Image [dropcap]O[/dropcap]n January 29, 2016, Prince summoned me to his home, Paisley Park, to tell me about […]
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Dr. Samuel Kountz, 51, Dies; Leader In Transplant Surgery | The New York Times (Dec., 1981)
Lawrence K. Altman, The New York Times Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collection of the Medical Research Library at SUNY Downstate Center, Kountz History Collection. Featured Image About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these […]
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Overlooked | The New York Times
These remarkable black men and women never received obituaries in The New York Times — until now. We’re adding their stories to our project about prominent people whose deaths were not reported by the newspaper.
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Dismantling the Myth of the “Black Confederate” | Slate
A new book explores the false—yet oddly ubiquitous—belief that black men fought for the South during the Civil War.
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