Lori Lakin Hutcherson, Good Black News Ron Tom/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]Before[/dropcap] reading, please understand the deep degree to which I am an Aretha Franklin fan. I have been in rapture since I was a teen grooving to “Jump To It,” “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me),” “Think,” and, of […]
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Black History Month: Gloria Hayes Richardson led a movement | Daily Kos
Denise Oliver Velez, Daily Kos Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Howard Greenberg Gallery. Featured Image [dropcap]I[/dropcap] have never forgotten the first time I saw a photograph of a black woman dismissively pushing a National Guard soldier’s bayonet out of her face, and another image of that […]
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Museum receives $3.5 million endowment gift from Eddie and Sylvia Brown | Art Daily
Art Daily, Art Daily Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown. (Lloyd Fox / Baltimore Sun). Featured Image [dropcap]BALTIMORE[/dropcap], MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art today announced a gift of $3.5 million from Baltimore-based philanthropists Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown to endow the position of chief curator at the museum. The Browns’ support and advocacy […]
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Man Sees $1 Baseball Bat at Garage Sale and Discovers Its Jackie Robinson’s | The Epoch Times
One never knows what he or she might find at a garage sale, and one man in Iowa can definitely attest to this statement.
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Only Surviving Arabic Slave Narrative Written in the United States Digitized by Library of Congress | Smithsonian Magazine
Omar Ibn Said, a wealthy intellectual from West Africa, wrote about his capture and enslavement in America
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Louisville Western Branch Library (1905- ) | Black Past
The Louisville Western Branch Library in Louisville, Kentucky, first opened in 1905. This library was the first public library in the nation to serve and be fully operated by black residents.
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The Black- and Woman-Led Success of a Chicago Ice Cream Company | WTTW
Daniel Hautzinger, WTTW [dropcap]Only[/dropcap] one Fortune 500 company has ever been headed by a black woman – Ursula Burns, who ran Xerox from 2009 to 2016 – and that number is indicative of the immense challenges black women and other women and people of color still face in climbing the corporate ladder. So imagine what […]
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Retired Austin firefighter shares journey to become Texas’ first black fire inspector | KVUE
On the east side is where Austin saw its first black firefighters, including a local unsung hero of the civil rights movement.
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“Her Life is History”: The Universality of Maya Angelou | WTTW
Daniel Hautzinger, WTTW Courtesy of Getty. Featured Image [dropcap]Maya[/dropcap] Angelou is universal. She wrote memoirs, poetry, screenplays, music. She acted, she directed, she produced. She was a talk show host, a dancer, a singer, a journalist, a streetcar operator, an activist, a friend, a mother. You could converse with her in six different languages, and […]
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Looking for “real” Black History stories from local African-Americans | On Milwaukee
Molly Snyder, On Milwaukee Tell us about your African-American family members who moved Milwaukee forward. (PHOTO: America’s Black Holocaust Museum/Facebook). Featured Image [dropcap]Every[/dropcap] year for Black History Month, Judge Derek Mosley posts daily tributes on Facebook during the month of February that provide information about remarkable African-Americans who were excluded from mainstream history books. [mc4wp_form […]
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