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This Nigerian boy just became a chess champion in New York | BBC
Sherrexcia Rolle is adding a little #BlackGirlMagic to the predominantly white aviation industry.
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29-year-old woman running the largest black-owned airline in the Bahamas | Face 2 Face Africa
Black women are making telling contributions to the aviation sector, an industry which is largely male-dominated.
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Women’s History Month: Reclaiming the herstories of black woman suffragists | Daily Kos
Denise Oliver Velez, Daily Kos Chris Capilongo. Featured Image [dropcap]Watching[/dropcap] Democratic Party women don white to attend the State of the Union address back in January in honor of the suffragists’ battle for the vote evoked mixed feelings. I felt pride as a feminist, and pain as a black woman aware of the fact that […]
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50 Powerful Pictures From Black History That Speak For Themselves | BuzzFeed
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” —Booker T. Washington
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Ilhan Omar: We must apply our universal values to all nations. Only then will we achieve peace. | The Washington Post
Ilhan Omar, The Washington Post House at 2217 Macomb, taken on May 3, 1950. Detroit Public Library Digital Collections. Featured Image [dropcap]Ilhan[/dropcap] Omar, a Democrat, represents Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since I began my first term in Congress, I have sought to speak openly and honestly about the scale of the issues […]
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Capturing Black Bottom, a Detroit Neighborhood Lost to Urban Renewal | CityLab
“Black Bottom Street View,” now exhibiting at the Detroit Public Library, thoughtfully displays old images of the historic African American neighborhood in its final days.
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Teaching Hard History | Southern Poverty Law Center
Kate Shuster, Southern Poverty Law Center [dropcap]Schools[/dropcap] are not adequately teaching the history of American slavery, educators are not sufficiently prepared to teach it, textbooks do not have enough material about it, and – as a result – students lack a basic knowledge of the important role it played in shaping the United States and […]
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General’s family: From segregation to command in 100 years | AP
Christina L. Myers, AP In this Feb. 9, 2019 photo, Brig. Gen. Milford H. Beagle, Jr. commanding general of Fort Jackson, speaks to the president of the Sgt. Isaac Woodard Historical Marker Association following the dedication ceremony in Batesburg-Leesville, S.C. Beagle, Jr. who now leads the Army’s Fort Jackson in South Carolina is descended from […]
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How African American folklore saved the cultural memory and history of slaves | The Conversation
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, The Conversation IVANCHINA ANNA/Shutterstock. Featured Image [dropcap]All[/dropcap] over the world, community stories, customs and beliefs have been passed down from generation to generation. This folkore is used by elders to teach family and friends about their collective cultural past. And for African Americans, folklore has played a particularly important part in documenting history […]
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