Olivia Hooker was one of the last surviving witnesses of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, and was the first African-American woman to join the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Chicago food bank gets hand from Barack Obama with Thanksgiving prep | USA Today
Former President Barack Obama popped in to visit volunteers at a Chicago food bank on Tuesday, helping out as the charity prepares to feed people in need on Thanksgiving.
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Penn senior and Philadelphia native wins coveted Rhodes scholarship | The Inquirer (Philly.com)
Susan Snyder , The Inquirer (Philly.com) Anea B. Moore, a University of Pennsylvania senior and Rhodes scholar. ERIC SUCAR. Featured Image [dropcap]A[/dropcap] Philadelphia native and senior at the University of Pennsylvania, who lost both her parents while she was in high school and college, has won a coveted Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University […]
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The Hidden History of African-American Burial Sites in the Antebellum South | Atlas Obscura
Enslaved people used codes to mark graves on plantation grounds.
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Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Celebrated in New Exhibit | Baltimore Magazine
Work by artist Ed Towles featured at The Frederick Douglass-Issac Myers Maritime Museum.
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Michelle Obama Says She And Barack Are ‘Finding Each Other Again’ In Post-White House Romance | Huffington Post
The former first lady opened up about her marriage.
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‘The Kissing Case’ And The Lives It Shattered | NPR
In 1958, James Hanover Thompson and his friend David Simpson — both African-American, both children — were accused of kissing a girl who was white.
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The Double Battle | The Nation
Frederick Douglass’s moral crusade.
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Remembering Birmingham’s ‘Dynamite Hill’ Neighborhood | NPR
Long before the Civil Rights marches of 1963 thrust Birmingham, Ala. into the national spotlight, black families along one residential street were steadily chipping away at Jim Crow segregation laws — and paying a price for it.
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Harry Edwards, a giant of sports activism, still has people shook | The Undefeated
50 years ago, he worked with John Carlos and Tommie Smith for Black Power. Now, he’s talking with Colin Kaepernick.
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