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It’s Time to Celebrate the Black Women Who Invented Rock and Roll | The Daily Beast
Black women like Sister Rosetta Tharpe were doing rock and roll before it had a name, and they deserve to be recognized in the same household way as the men who followed suit. — BY, KALI HOLLOWAY It should be common knowledge that Black women invented rock and roll. Memphis Minnie, Willie Mae “Big Mama” […]
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Birmingham civil rights ‘foot soldiers’ to Black Lives Matter: ‘Keep on protesting’ | AL.com
“He was always positive, always had a smile on a face and he was always a joy to be around. He left an impact on a lot of people,” his sister said in a statement — BY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Charles Avery had barely started marching when police arrested him, forced him into a […]
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Viola Fletcher, Oldest Living Survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre, Celebrates 107th Birthday | People
“I’ll say that I’m Black and I’m proud,” said Viola Fletcher, who was 7 years old when as many as 300 people died in Tulsa — BY, RACHEL DESANTIS Viola Fletcher is the oldest known living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — and she recently celebrated a milestone birthday. Fletcher, who was […]
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Damon Weaver, Student Reporter Who Once Interviewed President Barack Obama, Dead at 23 | People
“He was always positive, always had a smile on a face and he was always a joy to be around. He left an impact on a lot of people,” his sister said in a statement — BY, ASHLEY BOUCHER Damon Weaver, a student journalist who once interviewed former President Barack Obama, has died. He was […]
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The Remarkable Story Of Jane Bolin, The First Black Female Judge In The United States | All That’s Interesting
On July 22, 1939, Jane Bolin was sworn in as a judge in New York City. She would hold this position for 40 years — and she only retired when she reached the mandatory age. — BY, GENEVIEVE CARLTON Throughout her life, Jane Bolin just couldn’t stop making history. In 1931, she became the first […]
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Miss Universe Canada opens conversation on racism in pageant world | City News 1130
— BY, ARVIN JOAQUIN, OMNI TV VANCOUVER (OMNI TV) — Miss Universe Canada, Nova Stevens, called out people who flooded her social media accounts with hateful comments, sparking a conversation about racism in the pageant world. Stevens is the second Black woman to ever hold the title, more than thirty years after the coronation of […]
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‘Where have we been? Where are we going?’: CBC Asks explores Black Prairie experience | CBC, Radio Canada
— BY, CBC NEWS Emmy-award-winning journalist Nina Parker can now add another line to her lengthy resume. Earlier this month, her clothing line became the first Black-owned, plus-size clothing band to be featured in Macy’s. With sizes ranging from 0x to 3x, the Nina Parker Collection includes various pieces and looks that customers can mix and match […]
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As Study Finds 4,000 Lynchings in Jim Crow South, Will U.S. Address Legacy of Racial Terrorism? | Democracy Now (2015)
By Democract Now Staff, Democracy Now A new report has uncovered shocking details about the history of lynchings in the United States and their legacy today. After five years of exhaustive research and interviews with local historians and descendants of lynching victims, the Equal Justice Initiative found white Southerners lynched nearly 4,000 black men, women […]
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Marie Scott Lynched in Wagoner County, Oklahoma | Equal Justice Initiative
On March 31, 1914, a white lynch mob in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, seized a 17-year-old black teenaged girl named Marie Scott from the local jail, dragged her screaming from her cell, and hanged her from a nearby telephone pole. Days before, a young white man named Lemuel Pierce was stabbed to death while he and […]
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