Nat King Cole performs in Copenhagen, Denmark, in April 1960. Ebbe Wrae/JP Jazz Archive/Getty Images
by Donna M. Cox, University of Dayton
Six decades after Nat...
Maya Angelou’s political journalism, written in the 1960s, was radical and anti-colonial. Pictorial Press/Alamy Stock Photo
by Alex White, University of Cambridge
On August 28 1963, a...
Writer Atiya (pronounced Ah-Tie-Yah) Irvin-Mitchell stands for a portrait in her neighborhood of Squirrel Hill on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)
Americans...
James Earl Jones preps in the dressing room before performing as Jack Jefferson in ‘The Great White Hope’ in December 1968. Harry Benson/Daily Express...
by Marc H. Morial
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—“As long as some among us are oppressed--and we are part of that oppression--it must blunt our faith and sap the strength...
AUGUST 21
1831—The Nat Turner slave rebellion begins in Southampton, Va. It was the best organized and most deadly slave revolt in American history....
Protesters at Brown University in Providence, R.I., dance during a rally in support of Palestinians. The protest ended peacefully when university leaders agreed to...
The importance of the NAACP Detroit Branch’s annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner should not be understated. Nationally, it’s the most attended, most well...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks after being released from prison for leading a boycott.
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by Kendra Thomas,...
