Fifty years after his U.S. Open win, the tennis player-turned-advocate offers a model for other athletes—and the rest of us, too.
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Thomas Allen Harris Goes Through a Lens Darkly | PBS.Org
The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People probes the recesses of American history through images that have been suppressed, forgotten, and lost.
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The Massacre of Black Sharecroppers That Led the Supreme Court to Curb the Racial Disparities of the Justice System | Smithsonian.com
White Arkansans, fearful of what would happen if African-Americans organized, took violent action, but it was the victims who ended up standing trial
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‘They wanted to jail us all’ – Black Panthers photographer Neil Kenlock looks back | The Guardian
From beauty pageants to burned-down pubs, Neil Kenlock spent decades capturing the struggles – and victories – of black Britain. Here he relives ‘some of the best years of my life’
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How to Win Elections in a System ‘Not Set Up for Us’ | The Atlantic
The Collective PAC’s Black Campaign School is backed by—and a challenge to—the Democratic establishment. It’s trying to increase representation in a country where 90 percent of all elected officials are white.
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How a Nearly Successful Slave Revolt Was Intentionally Lost to History | Smithsonian Magazine
More than 500 slaves fought for their freedom in this oft-overlooked rebellion
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Octavia Spencer-Led Series on Madam C.J. Walker Coming to Netflix | Colorlines
The beauty mogul built a hair care empire and became the first Black female millionaire.
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Opinion: How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women | The New York Times
Its worst offenses may be that it rendered nearly invisible the black women who labored in the suffragist vineyard and that it looked away from the racism that tightened its grip on the fight for the women’s vote in the years after the Civil War.
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Art installation honors African-American military role during Civil War | The DC Line
Museum’s 20th anniversary celebration highlights art’s role in highlighting historical understanding.
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Black female pilot makes history in Alabama National Guard | Stars & Stripes
Freeman’s aviator wings were pinned by retired Col. Christine Knighton, the second black woman in the Department of Defense to earn aviator wings and the first from Georgia.
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