Ida B. Wells was already a known activist and journalist. But, after her close friend was lynched for merely owning a grocery store, she began…
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Black HistoryLangston Hughes brilliantly written essays, and poems continue to impress young and seasoned minds alike. But not everyone enjoys reading. For those who aren’t bookworms,…
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Black History / EducationDuring the 1700s, slave labor made the French colony of Saint Domingue one of the wealthiest colonies in the world. However, a steady flow of…
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Black History / EducationIn the 15th century, Spain colonized Puerto Rico and brought enslaved Africans to work in gold mines and sugar cane fields. Separated from their homeland,…
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Black History / EducationIn 1824, the Mexican government enacted the General Colonization Law that guaranteed land ownership to all heads of household, regardless of race. For Black families…
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Black History / EducationIn the mid-15th century, the Portuguese developed seafaring technology that enabled them to reach Africa. Soon, they started kidnapping people from the west coast of…
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Black History / EducationThe University Press of Kentucky has just released paperback editions of two books that are instrumental to our understanding of civil rights history and how…
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Black History / EducationJOHANNESBURG — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a longtime anti-apartheid activist whose reputation was sullied by scandal, has died. She was 81. The woman many South Africans once…
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Black History / EducationI first heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak in person on April 19, 1960 at Spelman College’s Sisters Chapel during my senior year in…
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Black History / EducationFriends, family, and people who were alive during the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision ending segregation are mourning the loss of the Brown v.…