A. Scott Bolden, NNPA Newswire Correspondent, The Afro-American A photograph of Harriet Tubman is seen at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park’s Visitor Center in Church Creek, Maryland. (State Dept./Astrid Riecken). Featured Image [dropcap]With[/dropcap] uniquely American hypocrisy, the Trump Treasury Department has pushed back the 2016 plan to put escaped slave and Underground Railroad […]
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In diverse metro Atlanta, why are less than a quarter of homes black-owned? | Curbed
Only six U.S. cities have lower percentages of black homeowners, analysis finds
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations | The New Yorker
By The New Yorker, The New Yorker YOUTH & FAMILIES DETERMINED TO SUCCEED. Featured Image [dropcap]It’s[/dropcap] not often that an article comes along that changes the world, but that’s exactly what happened with Ta-Nehisi Coates, five years ago, when he wrote “The Case for Reparations,” in The Atlantic. Reparations have been discussed since the end […]
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World War II veteran calls honorable discharge from Army to correct an ‘injustice’ nearly 75 years later ‘a miracle’ | Chicago Tribune
PHILADELPHIA World War II veteran Nelson Henry Jr. never thought he would see the day the Army would correct his discharge nearly 75 years after he was forced to leave the military because of the color of his skin. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Henry, 95, of Philadelphia, received word Monday from the Army Correction of Military Records […]
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[VIDEO] Celebrating Black History: Incredible innovations | Fox 8 Cleveland
Roosevelt Leftwich, Fox 8 Cleveland [dropcap]CLEVELAND[/dropcap]- African American inventors have made their mark not just on history, but the things that make our lives easier every day. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] From the overhead trolly to the sofa bed, from the super soaker gun to the home surveillance systems these were ideas that patented first by African […]
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Fighting Germans and Jim Crow: Role of Black Troops on D-Day | Military.com
BATON ROUGE, La. — It was the most massive amphibious invasion the world has ever seen, with tens of thousands of Allied troops spread out across the air and sea aiming to get a toehold in Normandy for the final assault on Nazi Germany. And while portrayals of D-Day often depict an all-white host of […]
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UAB student selected for prestigious national fellowship | Birmingham Times
Yvonne Taunton, Birmingham Times Sandra Cutts (Provided Photo). Featured Image [dropcap]After[/dropcap] a week of interviews in legislative offices on Capitol Hill, Sandra Cutts, a University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Engineering doctoral candidate, has been selected as one of 60 students to be a 2019 John A. Knauss Marine Policy fellow. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Cutts […]
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The American social revolution after slavery: Incredible photographs from 1900 Paris exhibition showed the world that African Americans were now musicians, lawyers and scientists | Daily Mail
Incredible photos from the turn of the 20th century were included in a bold and spectacular Parisian exhibit designed to promote racial equality in the wake of the American Civil War. He immediately turned to Librarian Daniel Murray and his former university classmate and prominent intellectual activist W.E.B. Du Bois to help curate his much […]
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Rory Doyle: Challenging the Cowboy Culture with the Delta Hill Riders | The Phoblographer
Rory Doyle talks about documenting the daily life of the African American cowboys of his hometown for his winning series in this year’s ZEISS Photography Award.
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A Forgotten Presidential Candidate From 1904 | NPR
Despite what you read in some history books — such as the Biographical Dictionary of Congressional Women — Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) was not in 1972 the first African-American candidate to run for president of the United States. In 1904, George Edwin Taylor — often forgotten in the discussion of black American political pioneers — […]
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