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When Brooklyn Answered the Call: Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson

by Binta Vann “He could motivate and generate movement among people with his preaching and teachings,” my father said when asked about Reverend Jesse Jackson.He was describing his experience in 1984 when Rev Jesse Jackson asked him to serve as campaign manager for New York...
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Theatre Icon Woodie King, Jr. Passes

By Fern GillespieLegendary griot theatre producer-director Woodie King, Jr, The King of Black Theatre, has died at age 88. King's New Federal Theatre has been at the forefront of producing critically acclaimed plays with social justice themes, for over 50 years. He has mentored...

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The Stories We Refuse to Tell

Dr. Kendra Taira Field recently spoke on behalf of Clinton Church Restoration as part...
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 20,000 Historic African American Items in Elizabeth Meader Collection Up for Auction as Single Item

Traces Black experience in America from the Revolutionary War and beginnings of U.S. Slavery through the...
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Recognizing Medical Contributions by Africans and Black Americans

From early inoculations to modern medical devices OTP and Kenneth Crosby, MDThe contributions made by...
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Msnbc Pod Looks At How Newly Freed Black Americans Built Communities After The Civil War

Reporter Tremaine Lee Explores How Families Torn Apart Worked to Find Each Other Claretta BellamyProvided...
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Fannie Lou Hamer’s Essential Voice Captured in New Documentary Co-Produced by her Grandniece, Monica Land

Fannie Lou Hamer’s America: An America Reframed spotlights the story of the late activist...
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Professor William H. Mackey

Reprint from February & April 1997 Over the years we’ve had the opportunity to meet...
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The Fifteenth Amendment

The Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified on February 3, 1870, says that...
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An article titled “Free the Ballot,” about voting rights during the civil rights movement, from Memphis World newspaper, February 13, 1960.

Free The BallotAmerica is not fully free so long as the ballot is fettered...
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Exodusters : African American Migration to the Great Plains

When Reconstruction ended in 1877, southern whites used violence, economic exploitation, discriminatory laws called...
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Voting Rights for African Americans:A look back

A terrible and bloody Civil War freed enslaved Americans. The Fourteenth Amendment to the...
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Poet Maya Angelou’s Minted Image to be on U.S. Quarter

Eight years after her death, acclaimed poet, author and civil rights activist Maya Angelou...
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Mamie Till-Mobley and Son, Emmett Till, Posthumously Awarded Congressional Gold Medals

Emmett Till, a Chicago teen killed in the 1950s for the color of his...
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Helped Me Find My Voice

by Hortensia Gooding On Dr. Norma Raybon, Spelman College "To inspire" originally carried a literal sense...
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By David Mark Greaves It is widely acknowledged, and has been for some time, that...
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Kristen Clarke Named General Counsel of the NAACP

The NAACP today announced that Kristen Clarke, one of the nation's most respected civil...
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Glyne’s Fulton St. Barber Truck

Interviewed by Kazembe BattsIG: @kazbattsTell us a little about yourself.My name is Glyne Maccup....