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The first woman to start a bank — a black woman — finally gets her due in the Confederacy’s capital | The Washington Post

July 26, 2017August 17, 2017African American Economics, African American History ...

Maggie L. Walker started a newspaper. She was the first country’s first woman to found a bank. She was a humanitarian, a teacher, an icon of her community in 1920s Richmond.

Jack Daniel’s Embraces a Hidden Ingredient: Help From a Slave | The New York Times

July 25, 2017African American History, African American Lives ...

LYNCHBURG, Tenn. — Every year, about 275,000 people tour the Jack Daniel’s distillery here, and as they stroll through its brick buildings nestled in a tree-shaded hollow, they hear a story like this:

Don’t Let Detroit’s Revival Rest on an Injustice | The New York Times

July 24, 2017African American History, Black History ...

FIFTY years ago on Sunday the Detroit uprising began. Five days of violence left more than 1,400 buildings burned, more than 7,000 people arrested and 43 people dead — 33 African-Americans and 10 whites.

Rosa Parks’ Snapshots: Candid Photos Of ‘The Girl On the Bus’ | Flashbak

July 21, 2017African American History, African American Photography ...

Rosa Parks, the ‘Girl on the bus’ whose courageous act of defiance triggered the Montgomery bus boycott and fired the Civil Rights Movement in 1955, was no grandstanding celebrity.

An Act of Hate Toward an African American Family in Manhattan Beach Brings History Full Circle – Los Angeles Magazine

July 21, 2017African American History, Black History ...

When the past is the present

HBO’s Confederate will depict alternate timeline where south won US civil war | The Guardian

July 20, 2017African American History, Black History ...

Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss will write and produce the series, which takes place in the lead-up to a third American civil war.

Little Known Black History Fact: Alice Allison Dunnigan | Black America Web

July 20, 2017September 5, 2018African American History, African American Journalism ...

Alice Allison Dunnigan blazed trials for future White House Correspondents like April D. Ryan when she became the first Black woman named in that role in 1948. Dunnigan is also the first Black woman reporter to gain credentials to the press galleries of the U.S. Congress, and also the first Black woman to be elected to the Women’s National Press Club.

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