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California Museum Exhibit Reminds How Black Panthers Planted Seeds For Change
Former Black Panther Party members gathered at the California Museum to reflect on the organization's legacy and lasting impacts, and…
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51 Steps Toward a Unified Nation: D.C. Pilot App Revives 250 Years of D.C., National History Through Augmented Reality
51 Steps to Freedom, the world's largest outdoor museum, is an immersive AR walking tour that brings untold stories of…
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Independence Interrupted: What Fort Gregg-Adams teaches us this Fourth of July
The renaming of Fort Lee back to Fort Gregg-Adams, and the reversal of progress for Black women in the military…
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‘What to the slave is the Fourth of July?’
The distance between this platform and the slave plantation from which I escaped, is considerable — and the difficulties to…
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Commentary: This Fourth of July Is Yours, Not Mine
Frederick Douglass's speech in 1852 exposed the hypocrisy of America's celebration of freedom, and 173 years later, Black Americans still…
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What Frederick Douglass’ ‘What To The Slave Is The 4th Of July’ Means Today
Photo: Getty Images North America Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of…
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The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
Well before President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and well before June 19, 1865, when news of…
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This Independence Day, Remember Fighting Back is America’s Great Tradition
Photo Credit: Markus Spiske, Pexels I told my son recently that we’re descendants of the youngest combatant in the battle…
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U.S. District Judge Steve Jones Rules GOP’s Redistricting Maps Unfair to Georgia’s Black Voters
Judge Steve C. Jones of the Northern District of Georgia slapped down the redistricting maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature…
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Rise East Project: East Oakland Youth Development Center Assures Youth Have Input in the Future of Their Neighborhood
Part 5 By Tanya Dennis Rise East is a $100 million privately funded initiative to rebuild Black neighborhoods in a…
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Harriet Jacobs: A Beacon of Resistance Against the Darkness of Slavery
Within the fabric of American history, certain narratives rise above the rest, illuminating the darkest corners of our past while…
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Seeking Zero-Tolerance of Slavery: The Abolitionism Movement
The trans-Atlantic slave trade introduced a system of slavery that was commercialized, racialized and inherited, according to The New York…
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Westley (“Wess”) Watende Omari Moore: Maryland’s First
Wess Moore (born 1978) has taken his own place in the history of American politics. He is Maryland’s first Black…
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More Books Touch on Different Eras as Black History Month Nears End
It’s been more than a century since the Tulsa Race Massacre, and it still seems like there’s much to learn…
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Our Challenge During Black History Month: Resistance to Ignorance
Each year the Association for the Study of African American Life and History sets a… The post Our Challenge During…
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The Unapologetic Assault on Black History in America
Will you sit back and allow it to happen? Are you proud to be Black?… The post The Unapologetic Assault…
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