It was the beginning of the Long Hot Summer of 1967.
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Tracing Your Roots: My ‘Merikin’ Ancestor Escaped Slavery – The Root
Henry Louis Gates Jr. & NEHGS Researcher Meaghan E.H. Siekman | The Root Dear Professor Gates: I was wondering if you could help identify the parents of my five-times great-grandfather Ezekiel Loney, who was among the “Merikins” (formerly enslaved African-American soldiers who fought for the British) who settled in Trinidad. Ezekiel (born 1787) is one […]
View MoreAfrican American Women Writers – ThoughtCo
African American women writers have helped to bring the black woman’s experience to life for millions of readers. They’ve written of what it was like to live in slavery, what Jim Crow America was like, what 20th and 21st century America have been like for black women.
View MoreColorism as Racism: Garvey, Du Bois and the Other Color Line – Black Perspectives
One hundred years ago this month, Marcus Mosiah Garvey and thirteen associates gathered in a Harlem basement to found the New York branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
View MoreJazz and the Civil Rights Movement -ThoughtCo
How Jazz Musicians Spoke Out for Racial Equality
View MoreItems reflecting Black History up for auction – Fox 5 DC
The Howard Wolverton Collection of Black Americana featuring artifacts and treasures of Black American history will be auctioned off Thursday in Falls Church. The collection includes items reminiscent of our country’s shameful past of hatred and racism.
View MoreThe forgotten assassination of Dr. King’s mother – Rolling Out
Every American student knows that Dr. Martin L. King Jr. was assassinated by James Earle Ray, but very few are aware of the murder of his mother, Alberta Williams King.
View MoreThe Birthmark of Damnation: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Black Body – Viewpoint Magazine
In a widely replicated gesture, Coates locates the experience of racism in the body, in a racism that “dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth.”
View MoreIn 2017 State of Black America report, Blacks show slight gain – New York Amsterdam News
Equality Index for Blacks Inches Closer to Whites in the 2017 Report.
View MoreA Half-Century After His Untimely Death, Iconic Soul Man Otis Redding Still Soars – Atlanta Black Star
Redding wrote his own music in an era when many African-American artists did not or were not allowed to.
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