Former first lady Michelle Obama was a breath of fresh air Tuesday at a live armchair conversation with the Women’s Foundation of Colorado President Lauren Casteel in Denver. Poised and graceful as always, Obama still touched on some tough topics and spoke out frankly about the hurt she felt from the racist attacks she received while in the White House.
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Freedmen’s Hospital – First Hospital of its kind to provide medical services to former slaves | Black Then
The Freedmen’s Hospital was founded in Washington D.C, in 1862. It was the first proper hospital of its kind to provide medical services to former slaves. Later on, it was upgraded into a lavish and more proper hospital for African-American community residing in Washington D.C.
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Keith Baird, Linguist Who Fought the Use of ‘Negro,’ Dies at 94 | The New York Times
Keith Baird, a linguist from Barbados who rose to prominence in the 1960s arguing persuasively against the use of the word Negro and in favor of the term Afro-American, died on July 13 in Atlanta. He was 94.
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The first woman to start a bank — a black woman — finally gets her due in the Confederacy’s capital | The Washington Post
Maggie L. Walker started a newspaper. She was the first country’s first woman to found a bank. She was a humanitarian, a teacher, an icon of her community in 1920s Richmond.
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Jack Daniel’s Embraces a Hidden Ingredient: Help From a Slave | The New York Times
LYNCHBURG, Tenn. — Every year, about 275,000 people tour the Jack Daniel’s distillery here, and as they stroll through its brick buildings nestled in a tree-shaded hollow, they hear a story like this:
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Don’t Let Detroit’s Revival Rest on an Injustice | The New York Times
FIFTY years ago on Sunday the Detroit uprising began. Five days of violence left more than 1,400 buildings burned, more than 7,000 people arrested and 43 people dead — 33 African-Americans and 10 whites.
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Rosa Parks’ Snapshots: Candid Photos Of ‘The Girl On the Bus’ | Flashbak
Rosa Parks, the ‘Girl on the bus’ whose courageous act of defiance triggered the Montgomery bus boycott and fired the Civil Rights Movement in 1955, was no grandstanding celebrity.
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HBO’s Confederate will depict alternate timeline where south won US civil war | The Guardian
Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss will write and produce the series, which takes place in the lead-up to a third American civil war.
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Little Known Black History Fact: Alice Allison Dunnigan | Black America Web
Alice Allison Dunnigan blazed trials for future White House Correspondents like April D. Ryan when she became the first Black woman named in that role in 1948. Dunnigan is also the first Black woman reporter to gain credentials to the press galleries of the U.S. Congress, and also the first Black woman to be elected to the Women’s National Press Club.
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