Year: 2022
How Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” Shocked Listeners With Its Brutal Confrontation of Racism
BY KENNETH PARTRIDGE OCTOBER 6, 2021 According to recent findings by the Equal Justice Initiative, nearly 4000 Black individuals were lynched by white Southerners in the United States [more…]
Forgotten Heroine, Ethel Payne: Pioneer of the Black Press
Tammy Gibson, Contributing Writer October 8, 2021 Ethel L. Payne had a front seat in history. Known as the First Lady of the Black Press, [more…]
How the Freedman’s Savings Bank Failed Formerly Enslaved Americans
By: Dave Roos | Feb 15, 2022 During the American Civil War, nearly 180,000 Black Americans fought for the Union, many of them escaped former slaves. They were paid for their [more…]
Meet William Harvey Carney, The Fearless Civil War Soldier Who Never Let The American Flag Fall In Battle
By Kaleena Fraga | Checked By Leah Silverman Published February 22, 2022 Updated February 23, 2022 As one of the first Black men to receive the Medal of Honor, William [more…]
The Story Of The 1919 Elaine Race Massacre That You Didn’t Learn In School
By Genevieve Carlton | Checked By Jaclyn AnglisPublished December 30, 2021 In 1919, Black sharecroppers in Arkansas tried to organize for better wages — until a white mob and [more…]
National Inventors Hall of Fame will induct two Black women for the first time in history
Ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath and computer engineer Marian Croak will join the likes of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and Steve Jobs. BY CONNIE LIN The National [more…]
How a 1946 dispute over a broken radio in Tennessee helped spark the civil rights movement
Mike Christen The Daily Herald COLUMBIA, Tenn. – A historical marker recognizing one of the most pivotal moments in Columbia’s history was installed in 2016 on a broken sidewalk in [more…]
How Motown Broke Racial Barriers Like No Other Record Label
In the way its music was presented and the universal themes its artists sang of, Motown broke racial barriers to move everyone, no matter their [more…]
How Oregon’s Second Largest City Vanished in a Day
A 1948 flood washed away the WWII housing project Vanport—but its history still informs Portland’s diversity Natasha Geiling February 18, 2015 The mere utterance of [more…]
Josephine Baker Is The First Black Woman Who Will Be Buried At The Pantheon In Paris
PARIS — The remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Pantheon monument in Paris, making the entertainer who is [more…]