“Across this country, young black men and women have been infected with a fever of affirmation. They are saying, ‘We are black and beautiful.’” Hoyt Fuller 1968 The phrase “black…
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Maggie Lena Walker
1864-1934 By Arlisha R. Norwood, NWHM Fellow | 2017 At the turn of the century, Maggie Lena Walker was one of the foremost female business leaders in the United States.…
This Week In Black History October 26 – November 1, 2022
Courier Newsroom October 27, 2022 October 26 1749—The British parliament legalizes slavery in the American colony, which would become known as Georgia. 1806—Benjamin Banneker dies at 74. He had become a recognized…
The racist history of America’s interstate highway boom
BY LIAM DILLON, BEN POSTON NOV. 11, 2021 3 AM PT When President Eisenhower created the U.S. Interstate Highway System in 1956, transportation planners tore through the nation’s urban areas with freeways that,…
How Emmett Till’s murder inspired Rod Serling to create the original ‘Twilight Zone’ series
Frustrated by censors, Serling went a different route, with great success. Annie Reneau The original “Twilight Zone” series was unlike anything anyone had ever seen on television. Airing from 1959…
Breakfast with the Panthers
It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids than the state of California Suzanne Cope is a narrative journalist and professor at…
LBJ: ‘If You Can Convince the Lowest White Man He’s Better Than the Best Colored Man …’
President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who grew up in the South and understood the politics of racism from the inside, saw it in part as a ploy to divide and conquer.…
The Remarkable Legacy Of Jane Bolin, The First Black Female Judge In The United States
By Genevieve Carlton | Checked By John Kuroski Published May 14, 2021 Updated July 26, 2021 On July 22, 1939, Jane Bolin was sworn in as a judge in New York City. She…
9 Unsung Civil Rights Leaders That You Didn’t Learn About In School
By Kaleena Fraga | Checked By Leah Silverman Published November 3, 2021 Despite their immense contributions to the civil rights movement, these activists were largely ignored by the history books…
The Woman Whose Tireless Efforts Helped Launch The Famed Tuskegee Airmen
By Monica Danielle March 31 , 2022 Mary McLeod Bethune’s friendship with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt led to the desegregation of pilot training programs. The names of many women who…