Black History

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May 26, 2011
OPINION - What must it have been like to board segregated buses 50 years ago, when indignities and insults were…
May 19, 2011
David Barton, the Republican establishment's favorite amateur historian, claims in tax records reviewed by HuffPost to be something of an…
May 12, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Recy Taylor is touring the nation's capital nearly seven decades after she was denied justice following a…
May 9, 2011
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Charles Reed Jr. is skipping his college graduation ceremony to do something much more significant to…
April 20, 2011
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. (AP) - The museum will display rare books and documents connected with civil rights icons like Frederick…
April 15, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - King was born not far from Ebenezer and is buried across the street from the church. He…
April 14, 2011
OPINION - The attacks on the president's citizenship, combined with the personal jabs against Mr. Obama and his family, are…
March 7, 2011
OPINION - The new book "Colonization After Emancipation' portrays the former president's sincerity about racial equality in a new an…
March 1, 2011
OPINION - These men and women were part of the cultural and intellectual elite well before the Harlem Renaissance, at…
February 23, 2011
SLIDESHOW - How much did you really retain from elementary school about the origins of Black History Month?...
February 22, 2011
NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is helping teachers bring history alive in their classrooms...
February 18, 2011
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Recent flaps over racially offensive language at the University of Alabama fit a pattern that's dogged…
February 18, 2011
SLIDESHOW - Joe Frazier became heavyweight champion, Morehouse was founded and Huey P. Newton was born; this is an incredibly…
February 14, 2011
BALTIMORE (AP) - The greenhouse on the slave plantation where Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood is filled with…
February 11, 2011
SLIDESHOW - Buster Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson, the NAACP was founded and Nelson Mandela was set free; this is…
February 10, 2011
OPINION - The Kings and Shabazzes are not above petty fights, but the respective memories and enduring legacies of their…
February 9, 2011
A feud over the estate of Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, has created divisions among the couple's six…
February 4, 2011
SLIDESHOW - Michael Jackson rocked the Super Bowl, Jackie Robinson was born and Coretta Scott King passed away; this is…
February 4, 2011
VIDEO - What do you think about the progress African-American women made in history?...
February 1, 2011
MSNBC - Secret rooms. Hidden passageways. Trap doors. An underground escape route through a network of caves, surfacing at a…