Red Summer of shame: How hundreds of black Americans were shot, lynched or beaten to death by white mobs rampaging across the country in 1919
By BRYONY JEWELL FOR MAILONLINE America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from…
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The forgotten history of segregated swimming pools and amusement parks
By Victoria W. Wolcott | The Conversation Summers often bring a wave of childhood…
The Curious History of Anthony Johnson: From Captive African to Right-wing Talking Point
By Tyler Parry | Black Perspectives In various corners of the internet, memes circulate…
Chains, shackles and auction documents: remnants of the Africa to North America slave trade
(Reuters) – In late August 1619, a ship carrying “20 and odd” African men and…
White Women Slave Owners, Economics, and the Law
By Terri L. Snyder | Black Perspectives In a treatise published in 1681, Anglican…
While NASA Was Landing on the Moon, Many African-Americans Sought Economic Justice Instead
By Bryan Greene | Smithsonian.com In anticipation of astronaut Neil Armstrong’s first…
Flavors of Florida: Zora Neale Hurston’s Black Folk Ecologies
By James Padilioni Jr. | Black Perspectives While Zora Neale Hurston’s innovative…
Discovering Café Tournon–the Hidden Gem of African American Paris
Florence Colomban | The Daily Beast If you have ever wandered the streets of Paris on a…
Last enslaved alive when grandparents were born
Michael Coard | The Philadelphia Tribune Exactly 159 years ago on July 7, 1860, which was…
Local Politics and Black Freedom After the Civil War
By Karen Cook Bell | Black Perspectives On June 4, 1870 Joshua C. Legree opened an…
‘Red Summer’ of 1919: America’s Forgotten Racial Stain
By Jack Beyrer | Real Clear Politics “The city will be drenched in blood,” predicted…
One Hundred Years Ago, a Four-Day Race Riot Engulfed Washington D.C.
By Patrick Sauer | Smithsonian.com y all accounts, the 1919 Fourth of July celebration in…
The Racist History of Tipping
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber | Politico his week, the House of Representatives will have…
Radical Blackness and Mutual Comradeship at 409 Edgecombe
By Charisse Burden-Stelly | Black Perspectives In the first half of the twentieth…
What We Know About Vikings and Slaves
SARAH PRUITT | History.com More than a thousand years after the Viking Age drew to a…
Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World
By Adriana Chira, Black Perspectives George Hackett’s trajectory simmered with the…
What Is the Middle Passage?
By Rebecca Bodenheimer, ThoughtCo. The “Middle Passage” refers to the horrific…
Mae C. Jemison Biography
Source: Biography.com Scientist, Astronaut, Doctor (1956–) Mae C. Jemison is the first…