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To Be Equal: A message to my fellow Black men on voting

Getty Images Stock Photo (TriceEdneyWire.com)—“The history of the United States is a story about the disenfranchisement of millions based on their Blackness. More than a...

To Be Equal: Federal review of Tulsa Race Massacre will prevent it from being lost to history

Adobe Stock Photo by Marc H. Morial  (TriceEdneyWire.com)—“We acknowledge descendants of the survivors, and the victims continue to bear the trauma of this act of racial terrorism....

Black communities are using mapping to document and restore a sense of place

by Joshua F.J. Inwood, Penn State and Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee When historian Carter Woodson created “Negro History Week” in 1926, which became...

This course uses big data to examine how American newspapers covered lynchings

by Rob Wells, University of Maryland Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of course: Lynching and the...

Juneteenth, Jim Crow and how the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase...

Joshua Houston leads a Juneteenth Parade in Huntsville, Texas, in a photo circa 1900. Sam Houston Memorial Museum and Republic of Texas Presidential Library by Jeffrey...

Emmett Till’s accuser, Carolyn Bryant Donham, has died– here’s how the 1955 murder case helped define civil rights history

Carolyn Bryant Donham, left, reads newspaper accounts of the Emmett Till murder trial in 1955. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images by Davis W. Houck, Florida State University Carolyn Bryant...

With the movie ‘Till,’ Mamie Till-Mobley’s quest to educate the world about her son’s lynching marches on

by Brandon M. Erby, University of Kentucky After 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, severely beaten and killed in the Mississippi Delta on Aug. 28, 1955,...

Roger Caldwell: Black Lives Matter and the color of your skin

by Roger Caldwell, NNPA Newswire Contributor (NNPA)--There is a pervasive sickness in America, and it is called White supremacy, and systemic racism. These ideologies are...

No charges for NJ high school wrestlers in lynching photo

BELVIDERE, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey prosecutor says no charges will be filed against the members of a high school wrestling team who...

8 NJ wrestlers out of meet after lynching photo

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Eight New Jersey high school wrestlers scratched from a state tournament days after a photo surfaced of team members apparently...

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