Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post ‘Dramatic Social Change Requires Imagination’ – Prof. William “Sandy” Darity. Featured Image [dropcap]D[/dropcap]URHAM, N.C. — He’s been one of academia’s leading authorities on American racial inequity for years, in high demand by Democratic presidential candidates who hope he’ll endorse their proposals to close the “racial wealth gap” — a term […]
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Capturing the Soul: Photographic Portraiture Before the Smartphone Era | The New York Times
From F.B.I. posters to commissioned family photos, portraits have long revealed how people wanted to be presented, and sometimes how they didn’t.
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15 Powerful Stories Of Segregation In America | BuzzFeed
“We were unwelcome in the neighborhood. There were cross-burnings and shootings. After only two weeks in our new home, our house was completely shot up.”
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Air Force’s newest aircraft named T-7A Red Hawk in honor of Tuskegee Airmen | ABC News
Elizabeth McLaughlin, ABC News [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Air Force’s newest aircraft honors the legacy of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, the nation’s first squadron of African American pilots who flew combat missions during World War II. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Acting Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Donovan announced on Monday that the service’s advanced trainer aircraft, the T-X, has […]
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California assembly votes to ban private, for-profit prisons | NBC News
The bill would ban new contracts with private prison facilities in California starting next year, and would phase out their use entirely by 2028.
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Juanita Abernathy, civil rights icon, dies | AJC
Rosalind Bentley, Ernie Suggs, AJC In this April 18, 1963 file photo, Coretta Scott King, left, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, center, and Mrs. Juanita Abernathy, leave Birmingham jail after visiting Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Dr. Ralph Abernathy in Birmingham, Ala. Juanita Abernathy, who wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery […]
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A.L. Lewis: Florida’s first black millionaire remembered | NBC News
By Associated Press, NBC News Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole. Featured Image [dropcap]F[/dropcap]ERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. — They called him Fafa. A.L. Lewis loomed large in the Jacksonville childhood of great-granddaughter Johnnetta Betsch Cole and her two siblings. With only an elementary school education, he helped found the Afro-American Life Insurance Co. in 1901 and became Florida’s […]
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UVA grants full alumni status to black nurses who earned it decades ago | UVA Magazine
Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, UVA Magazine CLAUDE MOORE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY. Featured Image [dropcap]S[/dropcap]ome 20 years ago, longtime friends Louella Walker (Nurs ’58) and Mary Jones (Nurs ’61) were browsing a former teacher’s estate sale when they unearthed a brown bag filled with black-and-white photos. Staring back at them were their own faces, alongside those of […]
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Busing Ended 20 Years Ago. Today Our Schools Are Segregated Once Again | TIME
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, TIME Accompanied by motorcycle-mounted police, school buses carrying African American students arrive at formerly all-white South Boston High School on September 12, 1974. In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of busing as a mechanism to end racial segregation because black children were still attending segregated schools. White children had […]
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‘Amazing Grace’ and Poor People’s Campaign Embark On Voter Registration Tour | Colorlines
The Aretha Franklin-focused documentary will screen for free in 22 states ahead of the general election.
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