Black History Month

Hot dogs with a slice of history: Black Panther party installation to open in Oakland

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Pulitzer Prize-winning Black woman dedicates school named for her in district she integrated

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. talks highlighting Black joy – not pain – on new PBS series

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Food stamp with Brett Favre on it

The greatest welfare kings and queens of white history

Brett Favre’s alleged welfare fraud places him on a long list of white scammers who stole from Black people to…
/ October 3, 2022
Black Lives Matter Fence

Black Lives Matter protest artifacts scanned, saved for D.C. library

More than 1,600 Black Lives Matter artifacts once attached to a fence can now be found in a D.C. Public…
/ October 3, 2022

Hector Lopez, American baseball trailblazer, dies of lung cancer at 93

Hector Lopez, a former Yankee who blazed a trail as the first Black manager in American professional baseball history, has…
/ October 2, 2022

UVA photography exhibit shatters stereotypes of Black Virginians during Jim Crow

A collection of 10,000 stereotype-defying images documenting Black life in Central Virginia will be on display at UVA.
/ October 2, 2022

Artists recreate 1958 photograph of Harlem jazz musicians

A 1958 photograph of Black artists in Harlem will be recreated with emerging Black artists for the UK's Black History…
/ October 1, 2022

Ole Miss honors James Meredith 60 years after integration

James Meredith will be honored at the Ole Miss-Kentucky game Saturday in an ironic echo of history 60 years to…
/ October 1, 2022

University of Maryland renames dorm for trailblazing Black students

The University of Maryland renamed a dorm for Elaine Johnson Coates and Hiram Whittle, who were among the first Black…
/ October 1, 2022