by News Headlines | Aug 31, 2021 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US
Mahalia Jackson, Marian Anderson, and Odetta are three legendary female vocalists who established the African American woman in the first half of the 20th Century as, not only a significant voice in the Civil Rights Movement, but a defining...
by News Headlines | Aug 31, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam granted posthumous pardons Tuesday to seven Black men who were executed in 1951 for the rape of a white woman, in a case that attracted pleas for mercy from around the world and in recent years has been denounced as an...
by News Headlines | Aug 31, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black News-Africa and Diaspora, Current News Headlines
After making the Small Axe anthology series, filmmaker Steve McQueen is back with a trio of documentary films about pivotal moments in Black British history. This content was originally published here.
by News Headlines | Aug 31, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Thousands of tombstones from a Black graveyard established in 1859 have been lost in the muddy river banks of the Potomac River after they were dumped decades ago. On Monday, Aug. 23, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, and Washington Mayor Muriel...
by News Headlines | Aug 31, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
We mapped out two road trip routes that showcase the abundance of Black history and influence in some of America’s cultural hotspots. This content was originally published here.
by News Headlines | Aug 30, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is an immersive journey through American history. Dramatic, beautifully written, and compulsively readable, the novel brims from page to page with grand storytelling and heart. Spanning two hundred years, it takes an intimate look at...
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