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Author of Books About Race and Diversity Launches Online Humanity Chats

Ghanaian-American author Marjy Marj (Marjorie Boafo Appiah), who wrote The Shimmigrant and Same Elephants, has launched Humanity Chats – conversations about everyday issues impacting the human race. Airing on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube at 7:00 PM EST on Thurs. Humanity Chats encourages an open

Celebrating Great Civilizations of Africa – NAACP and Africa-America Institute Announce Alliance

The NAACP will work with the Africa-America Institute on the development and distribution of a curriculum designed to highlight the accomplishments and history of African Diaspora.

Morehouse Grad’s DVDs Tell Black Stories

Morehouse College graduate, Rex Barnett, has produced one of the largest documentary catalogs in the nation featuring Black achievers. “We have to own our own media companies that produce programs about us,”

Repeating History: Remembering Events Leading to Nov. 10, 1898 Wilmington Massacre

White supremacists in 1989 vowed to end this “Negro domination” in the 1898 state legislative elections. In 1900, the North Carolina legislature effectively stripped African Americans of the vote through the grandfather clause and ushered in the worst of the Jim Crow laws.

Gwendolyn Brooks Won the Pulitzer Prize while Living in a Housing Project

Gwendolyn Brooks’ apartment was dark on May 1, 1950. The brilliant, award-winning Black poet, who wrote about life on Chicago’s South Side, had not paid her electric bill. With no electrical power, little money and a nine-year old son to

The Untold Stories of Women in the 1967 Detroit Rebellion and Its Aftermath

The movie “Detroit,” which tells the story of the 1967 Detroit rebellion, has received mixed reviews since its release. Some praised the film for tackling a complex, little-known story, while others criticized it for its representation of the the city,

Biography: E.V. Wilkins

Wilkins officially entered politics when he won a seat on Roper’s town council in 1967, thus becoming the first African-American elected official in the region since the days of Reconstruction. Wilkins won the area’s mayoral election, thus becoming the first African-American mayor of Roper.

America’s always had black inventors – even when the patent system explicitly excluded them

One group of prolific innovators, however, has been largely ignored by history: black inventors born or forced into American slavery. Though U.S. patent law was created with color-blind language to foster innovation, the patent system consistently excluded these inventors from recognition.

Exploiting Slave Labor After the Abolition of Slavery

The U.S. criminal justice system is riven by racial disparity. The Obama administration pursued a plan

Recently Discovered Letter of George Washington Selling Off 90 Slaves to Be Auctioned in New York

Yonkers, NY — A long-lost letter of George Washington, reporting on an auction he held of

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