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This Little Girl Recreated Iconic Album Covers For Black History Month And She Seriously NAILED It | BuzzFeed

February 26, 2019February 26, 2019

“I hope we ensure that our children have pride and self-love and love the color of their skin and the texture of their hair.”

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These Photos of a Segregated U.S. Navy Unit Were Lost for Decades. They Still Have a Story to Tell | Time

February 26, 2019February 26, 2019

John Edwin Mason, Time Photographs by Wayne Miller—Magnum Photos. Featured Image There are many ways to photograph a black person, and it’s easy for things to go horribly wrong. America’s long history of racist imagery makes that quite clear. Wayne Miller, a white man, was notable for doing it right. In the mid-20th century, a […]

Lucy Parsons, African American Activist, African American History, Black History, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN

Black Women in the Labor Movement Have Long Defended American Workers | Teen Vogue

February 26, 2019February 26, 2019

No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied — and sometimes bloodied — past.

Bayard Rustin, African American History, Black History, U.S. History, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN, KINDR'D Magazine, KINDR'D, Willoughby Avenue, WRIIT,

Remembering Bayard Rustin 50 Years After the Stonewall Uprising | NYU Local

February 25, 2019February 25, 2019

“We need in every community a group of angelic troublemakers.”

Sojourner Truth, African American History, Black History, U.S. Slavery, Abolition of Slavery, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN, KINDR'D Magazine, KINDR'D, Willoughby Avenue, WRIIT,

BHM: “Ain’t I A Woman?” The Life and Legacy of Abolitionist and Activist Sojourner Truth | Good Black News

February 24, 2019February 24, 2019

Lori Lakin Hutcherson, Good Black News UNITED STATES – CIRCA 1939: African American Evicted sharecropper, New Madrid County, Missouri (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images). Featured Image It’s February 1st, which means it is now officially Black History Month! Although we here at Good Black News celebrate the achievements of Black people every day of the year, […]

Phillis Wheatley, Mary Jane Patterson, Mary Eliza Mahoney, Maggie Lena Walker, Claudette Colvin, Alice Dunnigan, Wilma Rudolph, Wangari Maathai, Mae Jemison, Andrea Jenkins, African American History, Black History, Black Women, KOLUMN, KINDR'D Magazine, KINDR'D, Willoughby Avenue, WRIIT,

10 incredible black women you should know about | CNN

February 24, 2019February 24, 2019

Christina Maxouris, CNN “Being dragged off that bus was worth it just to see Barack Obama become president,” said Claudette Colvin, who before Rosa Parks was arrested for keeping her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama. Featured Image (CNN)Black history is American history. It’s easy to say. But while most grade school teachers agree that the […]

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Washington Post’s first black female reporter: Newsrooms still aren’t diverse enough | Perspective | The Inquirer, Philly.com

February 21, 2019February 21, 2019

Dorothy Butler Gilliam, For the Inquirer, The Inquirer, Philly.com Dorothy Butler Gilliam in the fall of 1961 or early in 1962, soon after having arrived at The Washington Post. (Harry Naltchayan / Washington Post). Featured Image When I first walked into the Washington Post newsroom in 1961 as its first black female reporter, I felt […]

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Black History Legacy: Mary Eliza Mahoney, The First Black Nurse | Essence

February 21, 2019February 21, 2019

Mary Eliza Mahoney was one of only four students to complete the rigorous graduate nursing program at the New England Hospital for Women and Children, making her the first Black licensed nurse.

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Equal-Opportunity Evil | Slate

February 21, 2019February 21, 2019

A new history reveals that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable—and brutal—as it was for men.

Frederick Douglass, African American History, Black History, U.S. History, African American Slavery, U.S. Slavery, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN, KINDR'D Magazine, KINDR'D, Willoughby Avenue, WRIIT,

Frederick Douglass died Feb. 20, 1895, just hours after his public makeup with Susan B. Anthony | The Washington Post

February 20, 2019February 20, 2019

Steve Hendrix, The Washington Post A deathbed portrait of Frederick Douglass, taken at his home in February 1895. (National Park Service) (unknown/National Park Service). Featured Image When Frederick Douglass got home on the evening of Feb. 20, 1895, he was energized. A voluble storyteller prone to imitating his characters, the great man walked through the […]

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