What Americans Need to Know About Reparations Ahead of This Week’s Big Hearing | Slate

Devin Katayama, Slate Danny Glover and Ta-Nehisi Coates are scheduled to testify at the hearing Wednesday. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Theo Wargo/Getty Images and Anna Webber/Getty Images for the New Yorker. Featured Image [dropcap]On[/dropcap] Wednesday, a House Judiciary subcommittee will hold the first congressional hearing in more than a decade on the subject […]

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The Woman Who Kept Juneteenth Alive in San Francisco | KQED

Devin Katayama & Ericka Cruz Guevarra,KQED A memorial table at the African American Art and Culture Complex in San Francisco honors community leaders who have passed. Rachel Townsend (center) who died in 2018 is remembered for her activism and organizing of the city’s annual Juneteenth parade. Featured Image [dropcap]San[/dropcap] Francisco’s Juneteenth, a commemoration of the […]

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COMMENTARY: U.S. Attempt to Erase Harriet Tubman | The Afro-American

A. Scott Bolden, NNPA Newswire Correspondent, The Afro-American A photograph of Harriet Tubman is seen at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park’s Visitor Center in Church Creek, Maryland. (State Dept./Astrid Riecken). Featured Image [dropcap]With[/dropcap] uniquely American hypocrisy, the Trump Treasury Department has pushed back the 2016 plan to put escaped slave and Underground Railroad […]

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

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 […]

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The American social revolution after slavery: Incredible photographs from 1900 Paris exhibition showed the world that African Americans were now musicians, lawyers and scientists | Daily Mail

Incredible photos from the turn of the 20th century were included in a bold and spectacular Parisian exhibit designed to promote racial equality in the wake of the American Civil War. He immediately turned to Librarian Daniel Murray and his former university classmate and prominent intellectual activist W.E.B. Du Bois to help curate his much […]

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