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A Last Look at Ebony’s Archives… | The New York Times

September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

The most significant collection of photographs depicting African-American life in the 20th century is being auctioned. Historians fear the archive could end up hidden away.

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Jury awards $11.4M in racial bias case against Michigan for ‘mammy’ slurs | TheGrio

September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

Associated Press, TheGrio Cedric and Lisa Griffey with lawyer Jon Marko. Courtesy of Marko Law. Featured Image A jury has awarded $11.4 million to a black couple who filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections. Attorney Jon Marko says Lisa Griffey was a probation officer who was racially harassed by white co-workers. […]

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What the Right Doesn’t Understand About Black Colleges | The Atlantic

September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

Historically African American institutions serve a vital purpose, and it’s not segregationist to urge black athletes to attend them.

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California assembly votes to ban private, for-profit prisons | NBC News

September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

The bill would ban new contracts with private prison facilities in California starting next year, and would phase out their use entirely by 2028.

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A Prison Lifer Comes Home | The Atlantic

September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

Imprisoned for decades for a crime he committed as a juvenile, “Red Dog” Fennell was released as an old man into a baffling world.

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Erika Alexander Found Power In Hollywood’s Rejection | Essence

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019

The “Wu-Tang: An American Saga” actress says she’s no longer waiting on roles, she’s creating them.

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Breffu: a slave, a rebel, a fighter – and a woman almost invisible to history | The Guardian

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019

The role of women in conflict is often lost to the archaeological record – but Breffu’s story illustrates how sometimes we catch a glimpse of them.

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Juanita Abernathy, civil rights icon, dies | AJC

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019

Rosalind Bentley, Ernie Suggs, AJC In this April 18, 1963 file photo, Coretta Scott King, left, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, center, and Mrs. Juanita Abernathy, leave Birmingham jail after visiting Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Dr. Ralph Abernathy in Birmingham, Ala. Juanita Abernathy, who wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery […]

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A.L. Lewis: Florida’s first black millionaire remembered | NBC News

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019

By Associated Press, NBC News Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole. Featured Image FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. — They called him Fafa. A.L. Lewis loomed large in the Jacksonville childhood of great-granddaughter Johnnetta Betsch Cole and her two siblings. With only an elementary school education, he helped found the Afro-American Life Insurance Co. in 1901 and became Florida’s […]

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UVA grants full alumni status to black nurses who earned it decades ago | UVA Magazine

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019

Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, UVA Magazine CLAUDE MOORE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY. Featured Image Some 20 years ago, longtime friends Louella Walker (Nurs ’58) and Mary Jones (Nurs ’61) were browsing a former teacher’s estate sale when they unearthed a brown bag filled with black-and-white photos. Staring back at them were their own faces, alongside those of […]

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