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‘Harriet’ Trailer: Cynthia Erivo Fights For Freedom as Harriet Tubman in Oscar Hopeful | IndieWire

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019African American Cinema, African American Film ...

“Eve’s Bayou” director Kasi Lemmons is behind the camera for this biographical drama about the abolitionist icon.

Girl, 12, Describes Killing Of a Black Panther Here | The New York Times

July 24, 2019September 13, 2020African American History, Black History ...

— Max H. Seigel, The New York Times About the ArchiveThis is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors […]

I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked. | The New York Times Magazine

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019KINDR'D, KINDR'D Magazine ...

My college class asks what it means to be white in America — but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.

Sister Cities: The Connection between Charleston and Freetown, Sierra Leone | South Carolina Public Radio

July 23, 2019September 13, 2020African American History, Black History ...

By Victoria Hansen, South Carolina Public Radio Dressed in a brightly colored, patterned dress and wearing stylishly large, black rimmed glasses, 51 year-old Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr flashes the most fantastic smile. The mayor of Freetown, Seirra Leone in West Africa has travelled more than 4,000 miles to visit Charleston and South Carolina’s Sea Islands. She must […]

Black People’s Land Was Stolen | The New York Times

July 23, 2019May 20, 2020African American History, Black History ...

Any discussion of reparations must include how this happened, who did it, and the laws, policies and practices that allowed it.

Thomas L. Jennings, First African American to Receive a Patent | Post News Group

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019African American History, Black History ...

Tamara Shiloh, Post News Group [dropcap]Patents[/dropcap] are important official documents as they are used to safeguard one’s inventions. The first U.S. patent was issued in 1790. But it wasn’t until March 3, 1821, that a patent was issued to an African American: Thomas L. Jennings. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Jennings, born free in 1791, was awarded the […]

Why Japanese-Americans received reparations and African-Americans are still waiting | The Conversation

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019KINDR'D, KINDR'D Magazine ...

Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, The Conversation Carvings and barbed wire illustrate the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial on Bainbridge Island, Wash. The site, designed by architect Johnpaul Jones, opened in 2011. (AP/Seattle Times/Jordan Stead). Featured Image [dropcap]In[/dropcap] June, the United States House of Representatives held a debate about reparations to African-Americans. One of the questions […]

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