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These Photos Will Change the Way You Think About Race in Coal Country | Yes Magazine
The myth that Appalachia is uniformly White lingers, but communities of “Affrilachians” were documented in the 1930s.
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Artist Henrietta Snype Preserves African Basket Making Tradition | AFRO
One of the most important aspects of African culture kept alive by the Gullah is basket weaving, or basket-making.
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Floyd Carter Sr., one of the remaining Tuskegee Airmen and NYPD veteran, dies at 95 | New York Daily News
The decorated veteran of three wars and 27 years with the NYPD died Thursday at age 95, leaving a long legacy as a groundbreaking hero pilot and a city police detective.
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Dignity brought to life: Colorized photographs show the everyday life of African Americans who lived side by side with immigrants in Jim Crow-era Nebraska | Daily Mail
Black and white images of African Americans in Lincoln, Nebraska, from 1910-1925 during the New Negro Movement, have been colorized by an online group.
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These photos of the Tuskegee Airmen show cool dedication in the face of wartime segregation | Timeline
Photographer Toni Frissell captured these men with a mission
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‘The Blood of Lynching Victims Is in This Soil.’ | National Geographic
By preserving soil from sites where blacks died from lynchings, a museum aims to help America acknowledge the racist brutality in its past.
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The Whitewashing of King’s Assassination | The Atlantic
The death of Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t a galvanizing event, but the premature end of a movement that had only just begun.
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They’re Walking Five Days Straight to Honor Harriet Tubman—and Black Women Everywhere | Yes Magazine
The women of GirlTrek are traversing 100 miles of the Underground Railroad to highlight Black female health and wellness.
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A Century Later, a Little-Known Mass Hanging of Black Soldiers Still Haunts Us | The Progressive
“The riot was a problem created by community policing in a hostile environment. It’s up to people now to decide whether there are lessons relevant to the present.” – Paul Matthews, founder of Houston’s Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
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