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‘The Kissing Case’ And The Lives It Shattered | NPR

November 6, 2018African American History, Black History ...

In 1958, James Hanover Thompson and his friend David Simpson — both African-American, both children — were accused of kissing a girl who was white.

The Double Battle | The Nation

November 2, 2018African American History, African American Politics ...

Frederick Douglass’s moral crusade.

Remembering Birmingham’s ‘Dynamite Hill’ Neighborhood | NPR

November 1, 2018November 3, 2019African American History, Black History ...

Long before the Civil Rights marches of 1963 thrust Birmingham, Ala. into the national spotlight, black families along one residential street were steadily chipping away at Jim Crow segregation laws — and paying a price for it.

Harry Edwards, a giant of sports activism, still has people shook | The Undefeated

October 31, 2018African American Athletes, African American History ...

50 years ago, he worked with John Carlos and Tommie Smith for Black Power. Now, he’s talking with Colin Kaepernick.

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom review: a monumental biography | The Guardian

October 31, 2018African American History, Black History ...

David Blight has written a must-read life of the escaped slave who held America ‘to the lightning scorn of moral indignation’

This Abandoned Texas Church Once Destroyed By The Klan Is In A Contest For Revitalization Money | Texas Standard

October 25, 2018African American History, Black History ...

The San Marcos Baptist church was first burned down by the KKK. Now community members are trying to save its history from being erased by gentrification.

A Black Motorists’ Guide to Jim Crow America, Newly Relevant | The New York Times Style Magazine

October 19, 2018African American History, Black History ...

The “Green Book,” a travel manual published between 1936 and 1967 — and now the premise of a film by the same name — feels as necessary as ever.

Arkansas’ ‘Hidden Figure’ Raye Montague Dies at 83 | Ebony

October 18, 2018African American History, African American News ...

Arkansas’ own “hidden figure” who worked as an engineer for the U.S. Navy and was seen as a leader for women of color in the engineering field has died at age 83.

[WATCH] Activists Take Back The Street Named After The Black Mayor Who Bombed MOVE | Colorlines

October 18, 2018African American History, Black History ...

Philadelphia recently named a street after the city’s first Black mayor, W. Wilson Goode Sr. Activists say that the renaming hurts given that Goode facilitated the fatal 1985 bombing of the home where the Black liberation and environmentalist group MOVE lived. Colorlines captured an October protest imbued with spirituality.

My Grandmother Calls Me Every Election Day. Here’s Why That Matters. | Forbes

October 17, 2018African American Vote, Black Vote ...

Ferrisa Connell Forbes President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 while Martin Luther King and others look on. Featured Image [dropcap]Each[/dropcap] November, my now 93-year-old grandmother dresses up to cast her vote in-person at her local precinct. Perhaps more importantly, she also calls each of her kids and grandchildren to remind […]