By: Jerald Podair | Feb 1, 2023 As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me not to “fall in love.”…
Category: Education
Tignon Laws: the Law That Prohibited Black Women From Wearing Their Natural Hair in Public
By Mr Madu December 8, 2022 The tignon law was a 1786 law in Louisiana that forbade black women from going outdoors without wrapping their natural hair with a Tignon…
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 stolen cells of Henrietta Lacks and their ongoing contribution to science
In the past century, Henrietta Lacks has, arguably, done more to advance medicine than any other person. She played a material role in the development of polio vaccines, cancer treatments,…
How a High School Teacher Changed Early 20th-Century Insect Science
Systemic racism kept him from a position in higher education—but it didn’t stop Charles Henry Turner from rewriting our understanding of bees, ants, and cockroaches. BY EDWARD D. MELILLO AUGUST 15,…