David Blight has written a must-read life of the escaped slave who held America ‘to the lightning scorn of moral indignation’
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This Abandoned Texas Church Once Destroyed By The Klan Is In A Contest For Revitalization Money | Texas Standard
The San Marcos Baptist church was first burned down by the KKK. Now community members are trying to save its history from being erased by gentrification.
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A Black Motorists’ Guide to Jim Crow America, Newly Relevant | The New York Times Style Magazine
The “Green Book,” a travel manual published between 1936 and 1967 — and now the premise of a film by the same name — feels as necessary as ever.
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Arkansas’ ‘Hidden Figure’ Raye Montague Dies at 83 | Ebony
Arkansas’ own “hidden figure” who worked as an engineer for the U.S. Navy and was seen as a leader for women of color in the engineering field has died at age 83.
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[WATCH] Activists Take Back The Street Named After The Black Mayor Who Bombed MOVE | Colorlines
Philadelphia recently named a street after the city’s first Black mayor, W. Wilson Goode Sr. Activists say that the renaming hurts given that Goode facilitated the fatal 1985 bombing of the home where the Black liberation and environmentalist group MOVE lived. Colorlines captured an October protest imbued with spirituality.
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My Grandmother Calls Me Every Election Day. Here’s Why That Matters. | Forbes
Ferrisa Connell Forbes President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 while Martin Luther King and others look on. Featured Image [dropcap]Each[/dropcap] November, my now 93-year-old grandmother dresses up to cast her vote in-person at her local precinct. Perhaps more importantly, she also calls each of her kids and grandchildren to remind […]
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To Have Black Hair in America | Shoppe Black
Sixth grader Faith Fennidy was expelled on her first day of school for wearing braided extensions.
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A slave mother’s love in 56 carefully stitched words | KUOW
Before mother and daughter were separated, Rose gave Ashley a cotton sack. It contained a tattered dress, three handfuls of pecans and a lock of her hair. Rose told Ashley it was filled with love — always.
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Meet the gallant all-black American female battalion that served in Europe during World War II | Face2Face Africa
The success of the formation of the all black female battalion was thanks to Mary McLeod Bethune, an African American civil rights activist who at the time, appealed to the then-first lady of America, Eleanor Roosevelt, to create more meaningful roles for black women in the army to help balance out the shortage of soldiers.
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Eyewitness to the Desolation of ‘Black Wall Street’ | The New York Times
A woman who survived the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 reminds us that history doesn’t stay stuck in time.
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