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Beloved Baton Rouge Activist Sadie Roberts-Joseph Suffocated To Death And Was Found In A Car’s Trunk | Buzzfeed News

July 16, 2019July 16, 2019

The death of Roberts-Joseph, founder of the city’s African American history museum, has been ruled a homicide.

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African-American GIs and German Radicals: An Unexpected Alliance | JSTOR Daily

July 12, 2019July 12, 2019

In December 1969, radical German students reached out to the increasingly politicized black GIs. Together, they organized a series of rallies and teach-ins at German universities.

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UCSC emerita professor Angela Davis to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame | UC Santa Cruz

July 12, 2019July 12, 2019

Scott Rappaport, UC Santa Cruz In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, The National Women’s Hall of Fame will host a weekend this September in New York honoring the achievements of American women in the birthplace of the country’s Women’s Rights movement. The highlight of the […]

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While NASA Was Landing on the Moon, Many African-Americans Sought Economic Justice Instead | Smithsonian Magazine

July 12, 2019July 12, 2019

For those living in poverty, the billions spent on the Apollo program, no matter how inspiring the mission, laid bare the nation’s priorities

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The Women Who Brought Us the Moon | PBS

July 10, 2019July 10, 2019

Nathalia Holt, PBS Computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, including Janez Lawson and Barbara Paulson. Credit: NASA/JPL. Featured Image In 1965, Poppy Northcutt was the only female engineer at NASA’s Houston Mission Control. As she gazed at the men around her she thought to herself, I’m as smart as they are. Although she belonged among […]

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Is ‘Race Science’ Making A Comeback? | NPR

July 10, 2019July 10, 2019

Jess Kung, Gene Demby & Shereen Marisol Meraji | NPR Angela Saini, author of Superior: The Return of Race Science. Henrietta Garden. Featured Image When Angela Saini was 10 years old, her family moved from what she called “a very multicultural area” in East London to the almost exclusively white Southeast London. Suddenly her brown […]

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Read The Powerful Letter Fredrick Douglass Wrote To Harriet Tubman In 1868 | Watch The Yard

July 10, 2019July 10, 2019

Watch The Yard Staff, Watch The Yard Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ross Tubman were both born into slavery around the same time on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and became two of the best-known African Americans of the Civil War era. Both Douglass and Tubman escaped slavery as young adults: he in 1838, she in 1849, but […]

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From Glasgow to Tulsa: A Scot wrestles with his racial identity | The Scotsman

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019

Martyn McLaughlin, The Scotsman The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, during which white residents destroyed the prosperous black neighborhood of Greenwood, left as many as 300 people dead and 8,000 homeless. Credit Oklahoma Historical Society/Getty Images. Featured Image Early exposure to prejudice drove Eric Miller across the Atlantic to demand reparations for African American victims […]

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The untold story of the Wild West’s black cowboys | CNN

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019

Alan Huffman, CNN, CNN Rory Doyle. Featured Image The image of a typical American cowboy — a rough-hewn white guy in dirt stained blue jeans, cowboy hat and boots — is a staple of Western movies and modern country music. But as icons go, it gives an incomplete picture. While many cowboys on the American […]

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Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem | Black Perspectives

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019

Erica Ball, Black Perspectives L ift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it feels as if it has always been a part of our lives. When we attend an official community event or local celebration, I suspect that very few of us are […]

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