Tamara Shiloh, Post News Group [dropcap]Patents[/dropcap] are important official documents as they are used to safeguard one’s inventions. The first U.S. patent was issued in 1790. But it wasn’t until March 3, 1821, that a patent was issued to an African American: Thomas L. Jennings. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Jennings, born free in 1791, was awarded the […]
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What Big Little Lies Doesn’t Get About Bonnie | The Atlantic
Tonight’s Season 2 finale can either grant Zoë Kravitz’s character the depth she deserves or continue to underutilize her.
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Why Japanese-Americans received reparations and African-Americans are still waiting | The Conversation
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, The Conversation Carvings and barbed wire illustrate the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial on Bainbridge Island, Wash. The site, designed by architect Johnpaul Jones, opened in 2011. (AP/Seattle Times/Jordan Stead). Featured Image [dropcap]In[/dropcap] June, the United States House of Representatives held a debate about reparations to African-Americans. One of the questions […]
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Louisiana Police Officer on Facebook Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ‘Needs a Round’ | The New York Times
Officials in the city where the officer works condemned his comment but said they were not sure it constituted a threat.
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What we get wrong about the 1960s ‘riots’ | The Washington Post
Small-town America has never been immune from big-city problems.
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For The ‘Nickel Boys,’ Life Isn’t Worth 5 Cents | NPR
Michael Schaub, NPR [dropcap]The[/dropcap] long string of horrors that took place at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys wasn’t a secret, but it might as well have been. Former students of the Florida reform school had spoken out for years about the brutal beatings that they endured at the hands of sadistic employees, but […]
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The Forgotten All-Star Game That Helped Integrate Baseball | Deadspin
When Cleveland celebrated its sixth time hosting MLB’s All-Star Game last week, it might have seemed an odd event to commemorate baseball’s integration. But when Jackie Robinson stepped onto the field in a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform in April of 1947, becoming the first African-American to play in white organized baseball since the 19th century, it […]
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Swan Song | The American Scholar
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto
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Former Apollo trainee’s career took off in a different direction | The Washington Post
Rick Snider, The Washington Post Ed Dwight was the first black trainee in the Apollo space program. He later became a sculptor. (Matthew Staver/For The Washington Post). Featured Image [dropcap]Ed[/dropcap] Dwight never reached the moon as an astronaut, but his use of negative space in sculptures made him an international star. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] As NASA […]
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The D.C. Race War of 1919 | The Washington Post Magazine
And the forgotten story of one African American girl accused of murdering a police officer.
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