I went to the Whitney Plantation Museum to see if America is ready to reckon with its past.
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The hidden stories of medical experimentation on Caribbean slave plantations | Salon
A French physician working in Cayenne, envied the “numerous plant cures” known to “Indians and Negroes.”
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Dick Gregory, 84, Dies; Found Humor in the Civil Rights Struggle – The New York Times
“You know the definition of a Southern moderate? That’s a cat that’ll lynch you from a low tree.”
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The Oldest African-American City In America Is Celebrating Its 130th Birthday | Okayplayer
Eatonville, which received its charter from the state of Florida in August 1887, was built as a self-governing all-black town for black people living in central Florida at the time.
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Remembering Frederick Isadore Scott, Johns Hopkins’ First Black Undergraduate | Afro
Frederick Isadore Scott, the first African-American undergraduate to earn a degree from Johns Hopkins University, died July 15 at Johns Hopkins Hospital following complications from an infection. He was 89.
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When Jack Daniel’s Failed to Honor a Slave, She Stepped In | The New York Times
LYNCHBURG, Tenn. — Fawn Weaver was on vacation in Singapore last summer when she first read about Nearest Green, the Tennessee slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey.
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The Hoods Are Off | The Atlantic
The “Unite the Right” gathering wasn’t a Klan rally at all. It was a pride march.
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African-American Day Parade set for Sept. 17 | New York Amsterdam News
Dubbed as the “Largest Black Parade in America,” the 48th Annual African-American Day Parade is set to take place Sunday, Sept. 17, at 1 p.m. in Harlem.
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In 1950s Atlanta, Alfred ‘Tup’ Holmes Fought To End Segregation In Golf | WBUR
“My dad used golfing as a life lesson,” Michael Holmes says. “That you have to earn your way. That life is hard, that you have to work at it.”
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Baker League documentary showing at West Catholic | The Philadelphia Tribune
The Charles Baker League was the premier summer basketball league for many years in Philadelphia.
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