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A Previously Unknown Portrait of a Young Harriet Tubman Goes on View |Smithsonian Mag.com
“I was stunned,” says director Lonnie Bunch; historic Emily Howland photo album contains dozens of other abolitionists and leaders who took an active role
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Kamala Harris’s First Campaign Policy: A Raise for Teachers | The New York Times
Astead W. Herndon, The New York Times Senator Kamala Harris in Houston on Saturday, where she unveiled early portions of her first policy rollout, a federal investment in teacher pay.CreditCreditLarry W Smith/EPA, via Shutterstock, Featured Image [dropcap]Senator[/dropcap] Kamala Harris of California announced a plan Tuesday to heavily invest federal money into teacher pay, the first […]
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The danger of denying black Americans political rights | The Washington Post
Without access to political rights, violence becomes a crucial tool in the fight for freedom.
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Jeffrey Wright Wants the World to Know Uncle Nearest’s Contribution to American Whiskey | Esquire
Nathan “Nearest” Green, the slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey, is getting his first national campaign.
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‘They killed a white woman’: Fifty-four years later, Leroy Moton looks back at the killing that changed the civil rights movement | The Washington Post
Donna Britt, The Root Leroy Moton was riding in a car with civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo when she was shot to death after the third Selma to Montgomery march, in 1965. (Horace Cort/AP). Featured Image [dropcap]On[/dropcap] the night of Feb. 18, 1965, black high school senior Leroy Moton was arrested for the “crime” of […]
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How Jim Crow Went to China in the Making of Big Tobacco | Truthout
Anton Woronczuk, Truthout A billboard advertising fancy cigarettes in Shanghai, 1948. JACK BIRNS / THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION / GETTY IMAGES. Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] cigarette industry played a paradigm-shifting role in the rise of corporate power during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It drew on Jim Crow to expand globally, and revolutionized branding […]
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Karyn Parsons Talks About Her Debut Novel, ‘How High the Moon’ | Black Girl Nerds
New Novel Highlights Jim Crow, Colorism and George Stinney, Jr.
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Women’s History Month: Reclaiming the herstories of black woman suffragists | Daily Kos
Denise Oliver Velez, Daily Kos Chris Capilongo. Featured Image [dropcap]Watching[/dropcap] Democratic Party women don white to attend the State of the Union address back in January in honor of the suffragists’ battle for the vote evoked mixed feelings. I felt pride as a feminist, and pain as a black woman aware of the fact that […]
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50 Powerful Pictures From Black History That Speak For Themselves | BuzzFeed
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” —Booker T. Washington
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