Harlem, Mecca of the New Negro

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Source: Black Star News | Black Star News

Hulu Takes Down ‘The Golden Girls’ Episode Due To Blackface Scene

This announcement comes after a few other shows have also pulled episodes of their characters in black

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Source: MadameNoire

African-American communities suffer from institutional racism amid COVID-19: Fauci

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Institutional racism contributes to why African-Americans have been hit harder than white groups amid the COVID-19 pandemic, White House health advisor Anthony Fauci has

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Source: Independent magazine Uganda

LeVar Burton Narrates Special Google Doodle For Juneteenth - Blavity

The video doodle, commemorating the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth, was designed by artist Loveis Wise and is set to the first verse of the poem "Lift Every Voice and Sing” by James Weldon

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(1926) George S. Schulyer, “The Negro-Art Hokum”

Negro art “made in America” is as non-existent as the widely advertised profundity of Cal Coolidge, the “seven years of progress” of Mayor Hylan, or the reported sophistication of New Yorkers. Negro art there has been, is, and will be among the numerous black nations of

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Source: Black Past

An Ultimate Guide To Black-Owned Businesses To Support Now And Always

So we’ve aggregated all of our best guides to Black-owned businesses and brands to support right now (and always) into one easy-to-browse

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

PART TWO: 400 YEARS OF WHITE FEET ON BLACK NECKS IN AMERICA

George Floyd’s death turned a tinder box of historical frustrations with Police Brutality, institutional and systemic racism, into a bon fire of protest raging across America and the

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Source: The Florida Star

Zora Neale Hurston, writer/anthropologist born

Zora Neale Hurston

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Jan

7

1891

Alice Walker

Born in Eatonton, Georgia, on February 9, 1944, Alice Walker partly spent her life working as a teacher, lecturer and social worker but is primarily known as a writer today. Daughter to a maid and sister to 7 siblings, Walker spent her childhood with little money. She suffered a serious eye injury

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Feb

9

1944

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963: One Participant Remembers

In the account below Edith Lee-Payne recalls the day she was photographed as a 12 year old participant in the March on Washington, and the curious history of that photograph through

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Source: Black Past

OpEd: D.C. Must Support At-Risk Students | Afro

D.C. Councilmembers are now reviewing the mayor’s budget, which included a three percent increase in school operating costs for D.C. Public Schools and the District’s public charter schools, each of which educate about half of all city public school

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

A Rhetorical Analysis of Claude McKay's "Africa"

In this critical essay, student Heather Glover offers a concise rhetorical analysis of the sonnet Africa by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay. McKays poem originally appeared in the collection Harlem Shadows (1922). Heather Glover composed her essay in April 2005 for a course in rhetoric at

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Source: ThoughtCo

Poet, Langston Hughes, dies

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May

22

1967

Black Characters Should Be Played By Black People: Jenny Slate And Kristen Bell Step Down From Voicing Black Girls On Their Respective Series

And that’s what actresses Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate have done, stepping down from their voice over work for animated characters of

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Source: MadameNoire

William Stanley Braithwaite Born

Called by W.E.B. Dubois the most prominent critic of poetry in America , William Stanley Braithwaite was born in Boston, Mass. On May 5, 1919. Mr. Braithwaite was awarded the Springarn medal by th N.A.A.C.P. for his literary achievements.

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May

5

1919

Indiana Works to expand access to small business recovery resources | The Crusader Newspaper Group

New partnership aims to provide direct outreach, support to minority employers; small businesses encouraged to leverage available grants, loans to aid recovery

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

African-Americans and the Progressive Era

The Progressive Era spanned the years from 1890 to 1920 when the United States was experiencing rapid growth. Immigrants from eastern and southern Europe arrived in droves. Cities were overcrowded, and those living in poverty suffered greatly. Politicians in the major cities controlled their power

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Source: ThoughtCo

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963: One Participant Remembers

In the account below Edith Lee-Payne recalls the day she was photographed as a 12 year old participant in the March on Washington, and the curious history of that photograph through

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Source: Black Past

Ali, Duse Mohamad (1866-1945)

Scholar, playwright, journalist, and African nationalist, Duse Mohamad Ali was born in Alexandria, Egypt on November 24, 1866 to an Egyptian father, Ali Abdul Salam and a Sudanese mother, whose name is unknown. At a very young age Ali was sent to study in England under the tutelage of Captain Duse

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Source: Black Past

Jun

25

1945

Bonds, Margaret (1913-1972)

Margaret Bonds was a pianist and composer noted for her musical adaptations of Shakespeare and collaboration with Langston Hughes. Bonds was the first African American soloist to appear with the Chicago Symphony and played an important role in the development of twentieth century classical and

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Source: Black Past

Apr

26

1972

Racism, Sexism and Those Who Serve | The Crusader Newspaper Group

For women and people of color in the military and the VA, there are large bodies of data, studies, surveys, and anecdotes about what is espoused and what is

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

August Wilson

August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each work in the series is set in a different decade, and depicts comic and tragic aspects of the

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Source: ThoughtCo

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes , in full James Mercer Langston Hughes (born February 1, 1902, Joplin, Missouri, U.S.—died May 22, 1967, New York, New York), American writer who was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance and made the African American experience the subject of his writings, which ranged

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Source: Brittanica

May

22

1967

7 Things You Didn’t Know About Marcus Garvey

As he wrote in The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, “Education is the medium by which a people are prepared for the creation of their own particular civilization, and the advancement and glory of their own

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Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the New Negro Movement, named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. The Movement also included the new African-American cultural

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Some Do’s and Don’ts for White People Who Want to Discuss Racism at Work

DO: Ask Black colleagues if they would like to make space to discuss first before making

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Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel (1875-1912)

Born on August 15, 1875 to a physician from Sierra Leone and an Englishwoman, musical composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor grew-up in Holborn, England. He revealed his musical talents at the age of five, began studying the violin at the age of seven, and entered the Royal College of

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Source: Black Past

Aug

15

1875

History of African Americans in Boston

Until 1950, African Americans were a small but historically important minority in Boston, where the population was overwhelmingly white. Since then, Bostons demographics have changed due to factors such as immigration, white flight, and gentrification. According to census information for

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Faburn DeFrantz: Executive Director of Senate Ave YMCA for Over 35 Years in Indianapolis

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Source: Black Then

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Long Struggle for Civil Rights in the United States

This year the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People celebrates its 100th anniversary. In the article below historian Susan Bragg provides a brief introduction to the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the oldest continually

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