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Honoring the ‘Green Book’: A life-saving travel guide for African Americans during segregation | WMCAction News 5

December 10, 2019December 10, 2019African American History, Black History

‘If you wandered into a place where African Americans are not welcome…you could end up actually being killed’

Margaret Lawrence, 105, Dies; Pioneering Black Female Psychoanalyst | The New York Times

December 10, 2019December 10, 2019African American History, Black History

She overcame many hurdles, including rejection by Cornell’s medical school, which told her a black man before her “didn’t work out.” (He had died.)

Found: The Oldest-Known Photograph of Enslaved African Americans With Cotton | Atlas Obscura

December 6, 2019January 15, 2020African American History, Black History

The daguerreotype records their faces, but not their names.

US city to pay reparations to African-American community with tax on marijuana sales | The Telegraph

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019African American History, Reparations

A city in Illinois has announced it will create a reparations fund for its African American community through a new tax on marijuana sales. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Recreational use of the drug will become legal in the state from January and officials in Evanston, which is 12 miles north of Chicago, have voted to approve a […]

Harry and Sidney: Soul Brothers | The New York Times

December 4, 2019December 16, 2019African American Entertainment, African American History

Please allow me to divert my gaze for one day away from our national political darkness and toward two national rays of light. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Monday is Sidney Poitier’s 90th birthday. His best friend of 70 years, Harry Belafonte, turns 90 on March 1. This is an ode to and appreciation of the friendship — […]

Alabama unveils statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks | AP News

December 2, 2019December 2, 2019African American History, Black History

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A new statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was dedicated in Alabama’s capital city on Sunday, the 64th anniversary of her historic refusal to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man. Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed and Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey pulled back a cloth to […]

The Deacons; the black armed Christians who protected MLK, civil rights supporters before Black Panther | Face2Face Africa

December 2, 2019December 23, 2019African American History, Black History

Given that African-Americans were an easy target in the 1950s and 1960s, the Ku Klux Klan – the white supremacist group – had a free reign, terrorizing and even murdering civil rights supporters. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The incessant attacks were so frequent that many civil rights workers armed themselves for self-protection. Even the home of Dr. […]

Red Summer, 100 years later: Its legacy of racial division and hate is buried in our demography | Daily Kos

December 1, 2019December 1, 2019African American History

The events of Red Summer are important to remember in part because they are representative of the kind of horror that lies within the history of being black in America, a horror most white Americans little understand or appreciate, reinforced by their often willful ignorance. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] However, these events all were noteworthy in another […]

The Horrible History of Thanksgiving | The New York Times

November 28, 2019November 28, 2019African American History

Before you fill your plate, please remember why we mark this day.

First Black Oscar Winner Hattie McDaniel Lacks Recognition In Her Hometown Of Wichita | KMUW Wichita 89.1

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019African American Film, African American History ...

Hattie McDaniel is best known as the first African-American to receive an Academy Award. The actress and radio performer has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and her image is on a U.S. postage stamp. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Still, most people aren’t aware that McDaniel was born here, in Wichita. Her birthplace and childhood […]