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Dorothy Pitman Hughes, author, entrepreneur, and powerful voice for women’s rights

The recent convergence of Roe v. Wade and Mother’s Day connects ineluctably with the feminist movement and Gloria Steinem. And thinking of this iconic...

Largely ignored in the U.S., this was the first black man to reach the North Pole in 1909

By Mildred Europa Taylor, Face2FaceAfrica.com Born in Nanjemoy, Maryland, in 1866, Henson was only 11 and without any formal education when he left home after...

A Connecticut Love Story: Matt & Evelyn Lopes55 Years STRONG!

Prologue This story begins in 1947 New Haven.  It tells of 2 New Haveners growing up around each other in the loving communities that were...

James Jackson, by trade a chemist, by choice a revolutionary 

by Herb Boyd Esther Cooper Jackson was not profiled in this column last week but the paper did feature her obituary, with scant mention of...

Bertha Gober, a civil rights activist with a golden voice and powerful pen

by Herb Boyd The recent death of civil rights legend Charles Sherrod, who we profiled in last week’s column, summons a gallery...

Lewis Buckner, the Black architect whose buildings erected 143 years ago in Tennessee are still in good state

Stephen Nartey, Face2FaceAfrica Lewis Buckner’s work began gaining prominence in the 1870s. By the late 19th century, many of the houses in Sevier County in...

It was love at first sight: the story of how MLK met Coretta Scott

Francis Akhalbey, Face2FaceAfrica.com Several women played significant roles in Martin Luther King’s life and activism. In an interview, Marcia Chatelain, who is a professor of...

Florida to Black People: We’re Not Teaching Your History

The state’s Board of Education has sparked nationwide outrage over the decision to block AP African American Studies from being taught. by Aziah Siid, A...

California Family Whose Beachfront Properties were Seized 100 years ago, Sells Land Back to County for $20 Million

By Stacy M. Brown | NNPA Newswire The great-grandchildren of the African American couple Willa and Charles Bruce, whose land in Southern California was taken...

MLK Storyfest Centers Black History

By BRIAN SLATTERY | New Haven Independent Through words, music, and movement, storytellers, drummers, and dancers offered dozens of families a chance to find their place in...

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