Mary Church Terrell is a figure in African-American and women’s history worth celebrating. Born in Memphis, Tennessee on September 23rd, 1863, Terrell would go on to be one of the first African American women to attend Oberlin College.
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Lorraine and Eugene Williams: A civil rights power couple | The Daily Progress
Lorraine and Eugene Williams, the Charlottesville couple whose civil rights work helped desegregate city schools and whose business focused on fair and affordable housing, are the recipients of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 2017 award for diversity.
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This black father won equal education for his daughter, 100 years before the Supreme Court’s ruling | Timeline
Absalom Boston was an affluent whaling captain in Massachusetts.
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The Studio Museum Has a Vision for Its Home. And a Power Player at the Helm. | The New York Times
As the Studio Museum prepares to break ground here next year, coinciding with its 50th anniversary, Ms. Golden, is overseeing the institution at a turning point in its history.
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Watch: Reri Grist’s voice took her from the projects to the world’s most famous opera stages | Timeline
A soprano who got her start on ‘West Side Story’
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[Book Review] In Praise of the Black Men and Women Who Built Detroit | The New York Times
Traditional West African storytellers, griots carry their people’s traditions from generation to generation, and are renowned for their encyclopedic knowledge, their wit and their ability to bridge the past and present.
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Meet Phillis Wheatley | The Gospel Coalition
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784), a poet and the first African-American woman published in pre-Revolutionary America, was also a notable apologist, abolitionist, and missionary.
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The overlooked story of 104 African American doctors who fought in World War I | The Washington Post
By the time Louis T. Wright headed to France as an Army doctor, he was accustomed to discrimination — and accustomed to fighting it.
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Memoir of Elaine Brown, the only woman to lead the Black Panther Party, set to be adapted for film | Shadow & Act
Brown was the chairperson of the party from 1974-1977 while Huey Newton was in exile in Cuba, appointed by Newton himself. She most notably expanded the BPP’s objectives to include matters of importance to black women.
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[VIDEO] When James Baldwin Met Bill Buckley | The Atlantic
(2012) “The problem in Mississippi isn’t that too few Negroes can vote, it’s that too many whites can”
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