From the Civil War to Civil Rights
During the weeklong celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War we shouldn?t forget some of the incidents that...
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Black Inventors?Past and Present
America without Black labor, ingenuity, creativity, innovation and invention would be in the dark ages, and you take that anyway...
Black Inventors?Past and Present
America without Black labor, ingenuity, creativity, innovation and invention would be in the dark ages, and you take that anyway...
Rare Anti-Slavery Booklet Acquired by U.Va.
The University of Virginia has acquired a rare first edition of an 1829 anti-slavery manifesto that was considered a rallying...
Jackie Robinson’s Montreal Apt Commemorated
After a spring training in the segregated South, newlywed Rachel Robinson went to look at an apartment in a white...
Washington: the ‘blackest name’ in America
George Washington’s name is inseparable from America, and not only from the nation’s history. It identifies countless streets, buildings, mountains,...
?Happy Birthday, Langston?
?Melodramatic maybe, it seems to me now,? wrote Langston Hughes in his autobiography. ?But then it was like throwing a...
?Happy Birthday, Langston?
?Melodramatic maybe, it seems to me now,? wrote Langston Hughes in his autobiography. ?But then it was like throwing a...
Emerging Black Female Writers
Since the heyday of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Terry McMillan, Angela Davis, Gloria Naylor and Sonia Sanchez, Black women writers...