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Charles Henry Turner: The little-known Black high school science teacher who revolutionized the study of insect behavior in the early 20th century

by Edward D. Melillo, Amherst College On a crisp autumn morning in 1908, an elegantly dressed African American man strode back and forth among the...

Fred Gray, the ‘chief counsel for the protest movement,’ to get Medal of Freedom for his civil rights work

by Jonathan Entin, Case Western Reserve University Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King...

How to heal African-Americans’ traumatic history

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 Marie...

Students are often segregated within the same schools, not just by being sent to different ones

by Kari Dalane, American University School of Public Affairs The big idea Children from low-income households are increasingly being segregated into different classrooms from their peers...

How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America

  by Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee and Joshua F.J. Inwood, Penn State How can maps fight racism and inequality? The work of the Black Panther...

How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America

by Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee and Joshua F.J. Inwood, Penn State How can maps fight racism and inequality? The work of the Black Panther...

Broken faith

by Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Black people occupy a place between hope and despair. We hope our nation will keep its promises—that all people are created equal,...

California governor signs historic reparations bill into law

by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia On September 30, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law historic legislation that paves the way for...

Cash and King and Justice

“Quit Playin” You can run on for a long time…but sooner or later God will cut you down.– Johnny Cash The arc of the moral universe...

Commentary…Pence kicks off Black History Month with awful tweet

Literally, in one tweet, Vice President Mike Pence has set Black History Month back 152 years–– January 31, 1865, to be exact. That is...

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