William Melvin Kelley, the experimental novelist and filmmaker—who mastered and reinvented a kind of midcentury literary style crafted from a colorful array of language and perspectives—died in Manhattan on February 1, 2017, at the age of 79.
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Items reflecting Black History up for auction – Fox 5 DC
The Howard Wolverton Collection of Black Americana featuring artifacts and treasures of Black American history will be auctioned off Thursday in Falls Church. The collection includes items reminiscent of our country’s shameful past of hatred and racism.
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The forgotten assassination of Dr. King’s mother – Rolling Out
Every American student knows that Dr. Martin L. King Jr. was assassinated by James Earle Ray, but very few are aware of the murder of his mother, Alberta Williams King.
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If We So Choose – Southern Foodways Alliance
The short documentary “If We So Choose” introduces residents of Athens, Georgia who not only lived through Jim Crow separatism but fought against it and won.
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6 Black Explorers That Will Transform How You See the Ancient World – Atlanta Black Star
Christopher Columbus wasn’t responsible for Africans ultimately coming to America.
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Thurgood Marshall’s widow keeps his legacy alive – New York Amsterdam News
Cecilia Marshall never imagined that the battle for equal rights in schools and elsewhere would still be as vital today as it was six decades ago when her husband, United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, fought to end legal segregation as a civil rights lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
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Rosa Parks’ Pancake Recipe Will Blow Yours Out Of The Water – Huff Post
There’s peanut butter in there.
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Condoleezza Rice says America was born with a birth defect: Slavery – The Hill
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice compared slavery to a birth defect on Sunday.
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James Baldwin’s letters acquired by the Schomburg – New York Amsterdam News
James Baldwin, a native son of Harlem, is home again, at least some of his precious letters and other artifacts are after having been acquisitioned by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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Fla. Apologizes to ‘Groveland Four,’ Men Wrongly Convicted of Rape in 1949 – The Root
In 1949 in Groveland, Fla., four men—Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, Charles Greenlee and Ernest Thomas—were wrongly convicted of raping 17-year-old Norma Padgett in Groveland. Three of the men were imprisoned and another was shot and killed by a group of white men. They became known as the Groveland Four.
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