Policymakers assumed that if men were in the home, poor women on welfare would inevitably have more children and cost taxpayers more money. So by 1959, women headed the majority of households in Pruitt-Igoe.
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The story of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, America’s first black pop star | The Conversation
Largely self-taught as a singer, she began her concert career in New York with the support of the Buffalo Musical Association. In Buffalo, she was saddled with the nickname “the Black Swan,” a crude attempt to play off the popularity of Jenny Lind – known as “the Swedish Nightingale” – who was wrapping up one of the most popular concert tours in American history.
View MoreDonald Glover Is First Black Director To Win An Emmy In Comedy | HuffPost
Glover is unstoppable.
View More‘Aunt V,’ the World’s Oldest Woman, Dies in Jamaica at 117 | The Root
Her reign as the world’s oldest person did not last long; but her life – well, that’s a whole ’nother story.
View MoreSlave’s daughter who helped open the African American Museum dies at 100 | The Washington Post
Ruth Odom Bonner was 99 when she grasped the rope of the old Baptist church bell and started it tolling across the Mall last fall before a gathering of thousands.
View More200,000 People Downloaded Her App Within Two Weeks, and Forbes Magazine is Calling Her “The Next Steve Jobs” | Business Women
Even more, Forbes has named her “The Next Steve Jobs”.
View MoreThe First White President | The Atlantic
The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy.
View MoreI was jailed as a child. I know it’s possible to reintegrate into society with support | The Guardian
We need better access to reentry programs that offer support for people who have lived every day of their adulthood behind bars.
View MoreWhether she’s on the $20 bill or not, Harriet Tubman made men pay for underestimating her | The Washington Post
“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.” – Harriet Tubman
View MoreThe ‘slave block’ in a town in Virginia: should it stay or should it go? | The Guardian
A onetime site of slave sales in Fredericksburg has provoked a fierce debate. This is not a monument, it’s a piece of history – but should it be removed from view?
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