Eatonville, which received its charter from the state of Florida in August 1887, was built as a self-governing all-black town for black people living in central Florida at the time.
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Remembering Frederick Isadore Scott, Johns Hopkins’ First Black Undergraduate | Afro
Frederick Isadore Scott, the first African-American undergraduate to earn a degree from Johns Hopkins University, died July 15 at Johns Hopkins Hospital following complications from an infection. He was 89.
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When Jack Daniel’s Failed to Honor a Slave, She Stepped In | The New York Times
LYNCHBURG, Tenn. — Fawn Weaver was on vacation in Singapore last summer when she first read about Nearest Green, the Tennessee slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey.
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The Hoods Are Off | The Atlantic
The “Unite the Right” gathering wasn’t a Klan rally at all. It was a pride march.
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African-American Day Parade set for Sept. 17 | New York Amsterdam News
Dubbed as the “Largest Black Parade in America,” the 48th Annual African-American Day Parade is set to take place Sunday, Sept. 17, at 1 p.m. in Harlem.
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In 1950s Atlanta, Alfred ‘Tup’ Holmes Fought To End Segregation In Golf | WBUR
“My dad used golfing as a life lesson,” Michael Holmes says. “That you have to earn your way. That life is hard, that you have to work at it.”
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Review: In ‘Detroit,’ Black Lives Caught in a Prehistory of the Alt-Right | The New York Times
Racial slurs fly fast and furious in Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit,” but the most troubling and divisive words uttered onscreen are variations on the simple pronouns “they” and “them.”
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Shame on You Jeff Bezos! Amazon Data Center Threatens a Century-Old Black Va. Neighborhood | The Root
More than a few outraged citizens turned out this weekend to protest the fact that behemoth company Amazon, via its lackey Dominion Virginia, is attempting to seize 50 acres of land belonging to a mostly elderly African-American Northern Virginia community that dates back to slavery.
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Freedmen’s Hospital – First Hospital of its kind to provide medical services to former slaves | Black Then
The Freedmen’s Hospital was founded in Washington D.C, in 1862. It was the first proper hospital of its kind to provide medical services to former slaves. Later on, it was upgraded into a lavish and more proper hospital for African-American community residing in Washington D.C.
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Keith Baird, Linguist Who Fought the Use of ‘Negro,’ Dies at 94 | The New York Times
Keith Baird, a linguist from Barbados who rose to prominence in the 1960s arguing persuasively against the use of the word Negro and in favor of the term Afro-American, died on July 13 in Atlanta. He was 94.
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