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He Survived A Near-Lynching. 50 Years Later, He’s Still Healing | NPR, Morning Edition

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019African American History, Black History

It was 1965 when Winfred Rembert, then 19, says he was almost killed by a group of white men. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “I’m 71. But I still wake up screaming and reliving things that happened to me,” Winfred, now 73, said. During a 2017 StoryCorps interview, Winfred told his wife, Patsy Rembert, 67, about the traumatic […]

Court Stops Execution of Rodney Reed in Texas After Outcry | The New York Times

November 16, 2019November 16, 2019Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform

Mr. Reed had been scheduled to die on Wednesday. Celebrities, politicians and the state’s parole board had all argued for a reprieve.

N.J. sending teachers to visit trans-Atlantic slave sites to teach black history in public schools | The Philadelphia Inquirer

November 15, 2019November 15, 2019African American History, Black History

New Jersey public school teachers will get to travel to trans-Atlantic sites associated with the slave trade to learn how to better teach black history — not just in February but year-round — to comply with a decades-old state mandate. The initiative was announced Friday as a new program under the state’s Amistad law, which […]

READ: The revealing last letter written by Patrice Lumumba to the UN before his assassination | Face2Face Africa

November 12, 2019November 12, 2019African History, Congo

Born on July 2, 1925, Patrice Emery Lumumba was only 36 when he was brutally assassinated on January 17, 1961. After being executed by firing squad, his body was exhumed and dissolved in acid. He was the first legally elected prime minister of the Republic of Congo after he helped the country gain its independence […]

Black History Legacy: Mary Eliza Mahoney, The First Black Nurse | Essence

November 12, 2019November 12, 2019African American History

Mary Eliza Mahoney was one of only four students to complete the rigorous graduate nursing program at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, making her the first Black licensed nurse.

We need to talk about slavery’s impact on all of us | The Guardian

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019African American History, Reparations

How should we address the longterm trauma that was caused? As professor of the history of slavery, I aim to find out

Jim Crow Compounded the Grief of African American Mothers Whose Sons Were Killed in World War I | Smithsonian Magazine

November 11, 2019January 27, 2020African American History, Black History ...

Smithsonian Books presents ‘We Return Fighting,’ a groundbreaking exploration of African American involvement in World War I

What W. E. B. Du Bois Conveyed in His Captivating Infographics | The New Yorker

November 7, 2019November 19, 2019African American History, African American Photography

In 1893, Ida B. Wells published a pamphlet titled “The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition.” The expo, which lasted for six months, was held in Chicago and was meant to chart the trajectory of the Americas in the four hundred years since Columbus had arrived. Though a handful […]

Telling The Story Of The Apollo Theater | Essence

November 7, 2019November 11, 2019African American Entertainment, African American History

Director Roger Ross Williams spoke to ESSENCE about bringing the story of The Apollo—the “nucleus” of Black culture, music and art—to life.

Will America’s Universities Point The Way Towards Reparations For Slavery? | Forbes

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019African American History, Reparations

Georgetown University recently announced that it plans to raise around $400,000 a year to pay for reparations. They would go to the descendants of enslaved people who were exploited by Jesuit plantations and who were eventually sold to bring revenue to the university. A number of other universities, including Princeton Theological Seminary, have also announced […]