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Vice President Kamala Harris Joins Annual Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee, Honors Legacy of Bloody Sunday

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Fifty-nine years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders led a nonviolent march from Selma to Montgomery to demand equal...
Black History

Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum celebrates Women’s History Month 2024 with inaugural digital exhibition and new initiatives

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The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum has announced an exciting lineup of new initiatives for Women’s History Month March 2024 that will further the...
Black History

This 1969 Music Fest Has Been Called ‘Black Woodstock.’ Why Doesn’t Anyone Remember?

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The Harlem Cultural Festival attracted everyone from Stevie Wonder and Nina Simone to Jesse Jackson and Marcus Garvey Jr., but quickly faded into obscurity. In...
Black History

Unita Blackwell: Civic leader and civil rights icon

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by Herb Boyd If you are a poor Black woman born in the Mississippi Delta, you have three strikes against you, and chances are you’ll...
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Mildred Joanne Smith co-starred with Sidney Poitier, both debuting in ‘No Way Out’

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Mildred Joanne Smith was literally and figuratively flying high when the plane carrying her and other passengers to Newark Airport crashed. She was severely...
Black History

Jesse Ernest Wilkins, Jr.—a Black scientist at the Manhattan Project

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We have been told that Jesse Ernest Wilkins, Jr. pops up in two scenes in the film “Oppenheimer” (portrayed by Ronald Auguste), and we...
Black History

Homer Plessy, a civil rights activist who battled Jim Crow laws

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Last week, 130 years after Homer Plessy was ejected from a whites-only train and triggered the “separate but equal” Supreme Court ruling that enshrined...
Black History

Don Blackman, credited and uncredited roles in many films

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Over the course of years, we’ve seen “On the Waterfront” (1954) numerous times, but never knowing who the Black man was often seen among...
Black History

Azie Taylor Morton, the nation’s first and only Black treasurer

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Okay, you history buffs and political savants, who was the 36th Treasurer of the United States? Yep, this is a toughie and don’t look down...
Black History

Alice Dunnigan, first Black female reporter to cover the White House

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During a recent call from a young journalist our discussion touched on the history of Black women in the profession and I was reminded...
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