Killers of Emmett Till Confess in Look Magazine [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Editors Note: In the long history of man’s inhumanity to man, racial conflict has produced some of the most horrible examples of brutality. The recent slaying of Emmett Till in Mississippi is a case in point. The editors of Look are convinced that they are […]
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‘Watchmen’ Is A Powerful Exploration Of Black Trauma, And Everyone Needs To Watch | HuffPost
The sixth episode of the HBO series confronts white supremacy in TV’s best hour of the year.
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Barbara Hillary, First Black Woman to Reach the Poles, Is Dead at 88 | The New York Times
She accomplished both feats in her 70s, after deciding as a retired nurse that she wanted a little adventure in her life.
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Azellia White, trailblazer for African American women in aviation, dies at 106 | The Washington Post
Azellia White, who said she found freedom in the skies, becoming one of the first African American women to earn a pilot’s license in the United States, died Sept. 14 at a nursing home in Sugar Land, Tex. She was 106. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Her death was reported Nov. 18 in the London Daily Telegraph but […]
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He Survived A Near-Lynching. 50 Years Later, He’s Still Healing | NPR, Morning Edition
It was 1965 when Winfred Rembert, then 19, says he was almost killed by a group of white men. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “I’m 71. But I still wake up screaming and reliving things that happened to me,” Winfred, now 73, said. During a 2017 StoryCorps interview, Winfred told his wife, Patsy Rembert, 67, about the traumatic […]
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N.J. sending teachers to visit trans-Atlantic slave sites to teach black history in public schools | The Philadelphia Inquirer
New Jersey public school teachers will get to travel to trans-Atlantic sites associated with the slave trade to learn how to better teach black history — not just in February but year-round — to comply with a decades-old state mandate. The initiative was announced Friday as a new program under the state’s Amistad law, which […]
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‘Watchmen’ recreates the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, exposing viewers to an ugly chapter | NBC News
The facts of the Tulsa massacre appeared to have been unknown to many “Watchmen” viewers, who expressed their disbelief on social media.
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How I got revenge on a plantation tour | The Guardian
Nygel Turner recounts the weird, emotional experience of touring of a former slave plantation with his dad and uncle
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Five black men raided Harpers Ferry with John Brown. They’ve been forgotten. | The Washington Post
Every October, on the anniversary of the raid that helped fuel the Civil War, much attention is focused on Brown, not on his African American soldiers
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From emperors to inventors: the unsung heroes to celebrate in Black History Month | The Guardian
In 1926, the US historian Carter G Woodson, the son of former slaves, launched Negro History Week to commemorate important people and events from the African diaspora.
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