Watch The Yard Staff, Watch The Yard [dropcap]Frederick[/dropcap] Douglass and Harriet Ross Tubman were both born into slavery around the same time on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and became two of the best-known African Americans of the Civil War era. Both Douglass and Tubman escaped slavery as young adults: he in 1838, she in 1849, but […]
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2019 Belongs to Shirley Chisholm | The New York Times
A feature film. A monument. Tattoos in her honor. People looking for a hero have found one in this one-woman precursor to today’s progressive politics.
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From Glasgow to Tulsa: A Scot wrestles with his racial identity | The Scotsman
Martyn McLaughlin, The Scotsman The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, during which white residents destroyed the prosperous black neighborhood of Greenwood, left as many as 300 people dead and 8,000 homeless. Credit Oklahoma Historical Society/Getty Images. Featured Image Early exposure to prejudice drove Eric Miller across the Atlantic to demand reparations for African American victims […]
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Kamala Harris proposes $100 billion plan for black homeownership | Politico
David Siders, Politico “A typical black family has just $10 of wealth for every $100 held by a white family,” Sen. Kamala Harris said. | David J. Phillip/AP Photo. Featured Image [dropcap]Kamala[/dropcap] Harris, calling on the nation to “deal with the racial wealth gap,” on Saturday proposed a $100 billion federal program to help black […]
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The untold story of the Wild West’s black cowboys | CNN
The image of a typical American cowboy — a rough-hewn white guy in dirt stained blue jeans, cowboy hat and boots — is a staple of Western movies and modern country music. But as icons go, it gives an incomplete picture. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] While many cowboys on the American frontier in the 19th century were […]
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Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem | Black Perspectives
Erica Ball, Black Perspectives [dropcap]L[/dropcap] ift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it feels as if it has always been a part of our lives. When we attend an official community event or local celebration, I suspect that very few of us are […]
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Hear Wade in the Water: An Unprecedented 26-Hour-Long Exploration of the African American Sacred Music Tradition | Open Culture
Open Culture, Open Culture [dropcap]It[/dropcap] may well be a truism to say that American music is African American music, but that doesn’t make it any less true. And when we reduce truths down to truisms they lose the granular detail that makes them interesting and relevant. Everyone knows, for example, that there would be no […]
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Segregated By Design: An Animated Look at How African-American Enclaves in U.S. Cities Is Hardly an Accident | Aeon
Black ghettos are no accident – how state-sponsored racism shaped US cities
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Dr. Saint Elmo Brady, 1st African American to Earn Ph.D. in Chemistry, Honored With a National Historic Chemical Landmark | JBHE – The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
JBHE Staff, JBHE – The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education UNITED STATES – CIRCA 1939: African American Evicted sharecropper, New Madrid County, Missouri (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images). Featured Image [dropcap]Saint[/dropcap] Elmo Brady, the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry, has been honored by the American Chemical Society with a National Historical Chemical […]
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Biden plummets, Harris vaults to second in major poll | Politico
The California senator slid into second place in a new national poll from CNN, with Joe Biden still leading.
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