IDLEWILD, Mich. — The traffic along US 10 blows right by a dirt-road entrance. But a newly built brick marker proclaims, optimistically, “Welcome to Idlewild, a historic community.”
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Behind the Picture: Medgar Evers’ Funeral, June 1963 – Time
In 1994, eight black and four white jurors found 74-year-old white supremacist and long-time Klan member Byron De La Beckwith guilty of first-degree murder in the 1963 killing of civil rights activist and U.S. Army veteran, Medgar Evers.
View MoreBud Billiken Parade Saturday to be bigger, better than ever (1975) – Chicago Tribune
Tho most children today do not know who Bud Bliliken is or who he is supposed to represent, Billiken lives on each year in the parade of bands and floats that wind along Martin Luther King Drive.
View MoreKerry James Marshall addresses the absence of blackness – San Diego Reader
We’re the violators of their culture of leisure.
View MoreGoogle, Bryan Stevenson Launch Website Uncovering History of Lynchings in America – Atlanta Black Star
Before police shootings and mass incarceration beset Black America, the grotesque specter of brutalized Black bodies terrorized communities throughout the South, which struggled to deal with the problem of lynching.
View MoreThe Negro Factories Corporation – PBS
“Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self-contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world desire not, we seek not.” — Marcus Garvey, 1929
View MoreBefore Loving v. Virginia, another interracial couple fought in court for their marriage – The Washington Post
Eighty-four years before Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter traveled from their home in Virginia to wed in Washington, there was another interracial couple who made the same trip for the sake of love.
View More#SaveUnderground: Aisha Hinds on Freedom Dreams and Revolutionary Art – The Root
Last week, WGN America announced that it had canceled the critically acclaimed and riveting historical drama Underground. Allegedly moving in a more conservative, programming direction, the network is leaving behind a show that introduced millions of viewers to the relatively unknown network.
View MoreWhat I Learned About Love from Rereading ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ – PBS
This year marks the 80th anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s best-known novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Though the book is currently hailed as one of the most important in American literature, its initial reception wasn’t completely rosy.
View MoreThe most important black woman sculptor of the 20th century deserves more recognition – Timeline
Unfortunately, little of her work survives.
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