It’s harder for middle-class Black people to get a mortgage than it is for low-income white people. MoMo Productions/Getty Images
by Beverly Moran, Vanderbilt University
The...
“THE PIANO LESSON” HITS SELECT THEATERS ON NOV. 8, AND ON NETFLIX, NOV. 22.
Play originally part of August Wilson’s ‘Pittsburgh Cycle’
by Merecedes J. Williams
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A statue of Jefferson Davis, second from left, is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. A slaveholder, Davis represented Mississippi...
1945: Jesse James Payne was lynched in Madison County, Florida
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1806—Benjamin Banneker dies in Ellicott Mills, Md., at age 74. Banneker was a brilliant...
A split image of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris during the presidential debate on Sept. 10, 2024. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu/Getty Images
by Betsy Huang, Clark University
Just...
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...
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(BlackPressUSA)—In two years, we will celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday. Our great country has survived a Civil War, two world wars, a...
Names of lynching victims at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. AP/Brynn Anderson
by Taasogle Daryl Rowe, Pepperdine University and Kamilah...
