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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.

Stephen Miller is no outlier. White supremacy rules the Republican party | The Guardian

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

Republican voters made Trump the white-supremacist-in-chief. That’s why a resignation from Miller wouldn’t change much

The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right | Politico

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019African American History, History ...

Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.

It took 10 minutes to convict 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. It took 70 years after his execution to exonerate him. | The Washington Post

September 27, 2019July 26, 2020African American History, Criminal Justice ...

By Lindsey Bever, The Washington Post In March 1944, deep in the Jim Crow South, police came for 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. His parents weren’t at home. His little sister was hiding in the family’s chicken coop behind the house in Alcolu, a segregated mill town in South Carolina, while officers handcuffed George and his […]

What Do You Do After Surviving Your Own Lynching? | Buzzfeed

August 28, 2019October 29, 2019African American History, Black History ...

The most iconic image of racist brutality in America would have looked different had James Cameron not survived a lynching attempt in Indiana in 1930. He devoted the rest of his life not just to civil rights, but to memorializing the moment of his near death.

Alabama moves to protect the Clotilda, believed to be the last ship to bring slaves to the US | CNN

August 9, 2019November 26, 2019African American History, Black History ...

CNN An Alabama state commission acted Friday to protect the schooner Clotilda, believed to be the last ship to bring enslaved people to the United States from Africa. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Alabama Historical Commission filed a claim under admiralty, or maritime law, in US District Court in Mobile. The claim will ensure that the Clotilda, […]

100 years ago, white mobs across the country attacked black people. And they fought back | CNN

August 8, 2019September 5, 2020African American History, Black History ...

— Christina Maxouris, CNN CNN Thelma Shepherd was riding back to her Chicago apartment on July 27, 1919, when her streetcar came under attack. Black and white men hurled rocks at each other and at the passing vehicle. The 19-year-old who had recently left the South for a job in the bustling city didn’t know it, […]

What Is the Middle Passage? | ThoughtCo.

June 18, 2019June 18, 2019African American History, Black History ...

The History of the Slave Trade Across the Atlantic

[VIDEO] Celebrating Black History: Incredible innovations | Fox 8 Cleveland

June 7, 2019June 7, 2019African American History, Black History ...

Roosevelt Leftwich, Fox 8 Cleveland [dropcap]CLEVELAND[/dropcap]- African American inventors have made their mark not just on history, but the things that make our lives easier every day. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] From the overhead trolly to the sofa bed, from the super soaker gun to the home surveillance systems these were ideas that patented first by African […]

UAB student selected for prestigious national fellowship | Birmingham Times

June 4, 2019June 4, 2019African American Education, African American Literature ...

Yvonne Taunton, Birmingham Times Sandra Cutts (Provided Photo). Featured Image [dropcap]After[/dropcap] a week of interviews in legislative offices on Capitol Hill, Sandra Cutts, a University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Engineering doctoral candidate, has been selected as one of 60 students to be a 2019 John A. Knauss Marine Policy fellow. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Cutts […]