Call It A Comeback: This “Returnship” Program Will Help Women Return To The Workforce

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Call It A Comeback: This “Returnship” Program Will Help Women Return To The Workforce

Federal data shows that men are flooding the job market despite the pandemic. Women are not. This is particularly concerning because 1.1 million women have left the workforce since March […]

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? In 1867 Frederick Douglass, noted abolitionist and civil rights leader, weighed in on one of the most contentious issues of the day, suffrage for black men following the Civil War. His address, given in January 1867, during the Congressional debate on black male voting in the territories, appear

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King, Horace (1807-1885)

Horace King, born a slave on September 8, 1807 in Chesterfield District, South Carolina, was a successful bridge architect and builder in West Georgia, Northern Alabama and northeast Georgia in the period between the 1830s and 1870s. King worked for his master, John Godwin who owned a successful

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Rare Video Footage of Historic Alabama 1965 Civil Rights Marches, MLK's Famous Montgomery Speech

To see much more from the film, King: A Filmed Record, on Democracy Now!, visit http://owl.li/i1B3S. In a Black History Month special, Democracy Now! airs excerpts of the 1970 documentary, King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, a rarely seen Oscar-nominated feature about Dr. Martin Luther

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How the Compromise of 1850 Helped Delay the Civil War

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Africa: UNEP Steps Up Work On Zoonotics, Protecting Environment to Reduce Pandemic Risks

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In the following article Ginger Adams Otis, a staff writer at the New York Daily News and a longtime city reporter, describes her more-than-decade-long research following the evolution of a landmark civil rights case brought by the Vulcan Society, a determined group of activist black New York City

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The responsibility to preserve

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Hickman, George W., Jr. (1924–2012)

George Hickman was a Tuskegee airman during the World War II. Later in his life, he was a fixture at Seattle sporting events, working as an usher at University of Washington games and Seattle Seahawk football

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(1981) Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”

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Kenya coronavirus: Updates from March - April 2020

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The Association for the Study of African American Life and History: A Brief History

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Africa: Harnessing Tech to Employ Last-Mile Tree Planters in a COVID-19 World

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King, Marjorie Edwina Pitter (1921-1996)

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Obama, Michelle Robinson (1964- )

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