Though COVID-19 has killed Black Americans at nearly twice the rate as white Americans, Black people are the least likely racial group to say they're eager to get the vaccine.
An early 20th-century NAACP map showing lynchings between 1909 and 1918. The maps were sent to politicians and newspapers in an effort to spur legislation protecting Black Americans.
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After spending years examining the violent Red Summer of 1919, historian Karen Sieber discovered a previously hidden incident on the campus where she now works.
Bill Robinson dancing with Shirley Temple in ‘The Little Colonel.’
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'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' the best seller of the 19th century, is not a relic from the past. The complex Uncle Tom figure still has a hold over Black politics.
A mural outside La Chiquita Grocery in Santa Ana, Calif. honors the military service of nearly 200 local Mexican Americans.
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Ethnic studies programs gained popularity in schools across the country after a controversial ban in Arizona in 2010 sparked national interest.
Harris isn’t actually the first Black woman to run for vice president of the United States.
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Ever heard of Shirley Chisholm? What about Charlene Mitchell and Lenora Fulani? They are among the many African American women who've run for president despite enormous political barriers.
As momentum builds to remove statutes that pay homage to Confederates and others who sought to uphold white supremacy, a historian explores questions about what should be erected in their place.
Smoke rises from damaged properties after the Tulsa Race Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma June 1921.
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More Americans are learning about the 1921 massacre in the prosperous black section of Tulsa known as the 'Black Wall Street.' For Gregory Fairchild, it is a part of his family history.
The death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer has sparked widespread outrage.
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Anti-Blackness lingers in nursing and continues to limit access for Black folks, especially within nursing schools.
George and Laura Elmore (left) voting after wining a landmark case ending white-only primaries in South Carolina.
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Does the new film misrepresent Harriet Tubman’s legacy as claimed by many Twitter users?
Jean Marcellis Destine, dressed as Haitian independence hero Jean-Jacques Dessalines, heads to a protest against President Jovenel Moïse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 4, 2019.
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who freed Haiti from French colonial rule in 1804, is revered as a spirit in the Haitian religion. Now he's become an icon of the uprising against President Jovanel Moïse.
Mmusi Maimane, former leader of South Africa’s main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance.
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Mmusi Maimane's resignation highlights one of the core problems of democratic South Africa - the assumption that the only way to do anything is the way white men did it in the past.
A statuette of a proposed memorial that has yet to find full funding.
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Despite the millions used in the transatlantic slave trade and Britain benefitting from their forced labour, a national memorial is proving difficult.
Two of the top donors who made constructing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture possible were black.
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Billionaire Robert F. Smith made a big splash when he told Morehouse grads he would pay off their student debt. Yet his generosity adheres to a long African American tradition.
A new slogan for an old problem.
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