by News Headlines | Sep 26, 2022 | Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
“Forces in operation which must inevitably work” Adam Gibson stared into the barrel of the slave catcher’s pistol: a free Black man living in 1850s Philadelphia, Gibson was a prime target. For decades, slave catchers, as well as slaveholders and professional...
by News Headlines | Sep 25, 2022 | Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
When Illinois state Sen. Napoleon Harris (15th District) was a boy, he would play near the Little Calumet River, a few blocks from his house on 133rd Street, throwing rocks in the river and running around noticing broken boats. He had no idea he was on a site that was...
by News Headlines | Sep 23, 2022 | Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
During the Civil War, Archer Alexander, an enslaved Black man in St. Charles County, overheard Confederate sympathizers discussing their plan to attack Union soldiers. Alexander escaped to warn the troops that slaveholders sawed timbers off the Peruque Creek railroad...
by News Headlines | Sep 21, 2022 | Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black News-Africa and Diaspora, Current News Headlines
For the first time in its 132-year history, the Brazilian census now underway includes a question counting members of the “quilombo” communities founded by runaway slaves. On Ilha de Mare, an island with several quilombos off the coast of Salvador, in...
by News Headlines | Sep 20, 2022 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
It’s time we address a strange elephant in the room. There has been a lot of talk (admittedly largely coming from right-wing troll Twitter) about The Woman King, a recent film starring Viola Davis and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. Now, on most other days,...
by News Headlines | Sep 19, 2022 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Black News-Africa and Diaspora, Current News Headlines, News Current Events and Research
The Woman King is a throwback to the sweeping historical epics of the ’90s, with a twist: Its heroes are all Black women. It stars Viola Davis as the leader of an all-female army, the Agojie, in the West African kingdom of Dahomey. The Agojie are reportedly the...
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