Three churches, a school, and dozens of homes were demolished.
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How Ceiling Fans Helped Slaves Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners | Atlas Obscura
The punkahs of the Antebellum era served many purposes.
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John Legend Explains How Cash Bail Traps People of Color | Colorlines
Narrated by Legend and illustrated by Molly Crabapple, a new video from Color of Change explains how bail practices fuel mass incarceration.
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Dovey Johnson Roundtree, Barrier-Breaking Lawyer, Dies at 104 | The New York Times
The jurors were looking at her when they filed into court. That, Dovey Johnson Roundtree knew, could have immense significance for her client, a feebleminded day laborer accused of one of the most sensational murders of the mid-20th century.
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Little Known Black History Fact: Robert Robinson & Charles Williams | Black American Web
They came to the University of Oregon in Eugene with high expectations and the drama of their race as the centerpiece.
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Malcolm X Day 2018 | New York Amsterdam News
“History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”— Malcolm X.
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African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century | The Nation
An obscure legal loophole is often to blame.
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This Freed American Slave Founded an African Capital | OZY
Because one of the George Washingtons of Sierra Leone was a former American slave.
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NAACP national convention coming to Detroit in 2019 | Michigan Chronicle
The convention will bring delegates from across the country to downtown Detroit, where the group will determine the future policy and program of the NAACP’s advocacy and civil rights efforts.
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Unseen photographs of civil rights conflict in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 | The Guardian
The Observer dispatched photographer Colin Jones to cover the story and capture the activism centred around the 16th Street Baptist church.
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