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The Horrible History of Thanksgiving | The New York Times

November 28, 2019November 28, 2019African American History

Before you fill your plate, please remember why we mark this day.

‘Watchmen’ Is A Powerful Exploration Of Black Trauma, And Everyone Needs To Watch | HuffPost

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019African American Cinema, African American Film

The sixth episode of the HBO series confronts white supremacy in TV’s best hour of the year.

Barbara Hillary, First Black Woman to Reach the Poles, Is Dead at 88 | The New York Times

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019African American History

She accomplished both feats in her 70s, after deciding as a retired nurse that she wanted a little adventure in her life.

The Jim Crow South? No, Long Island Today | The New York Times

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

An investigation reveals widespread housing discrimination against blacks and other minorities in New York’s suburbs, more than 50 years after the Fair Housing Act.

Azellia White, trailblazer for African American women in aviation, dies at 106 | The Washington Post

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019African American History

Azellia White, who said she found freedom in the skies, becoming one of the first African American women to earn a pilot’s license in the United States, died Sept. 14 at a nursing home in Sugar Land, Tex. She was 106. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Her death was reported Nov. 18 in the London Daily Telegraph but […]

Diddy releases statement regarding Comcast, and Byron Allen’s discrimination lawsuit against the media company | Revolt

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

REVOLT Media & TV’s chairman speaks out.

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 […]

Stephen Miller is no outlier. White supremacy rules the Republican party | The Guardian

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

Republican voters made Trump the white-supremacist-in-chief. That’s why a resignation from Miller wouldn’t change much

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 […]

The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right | Politico

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019African American History, History ...

Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.