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Black women and their commitment to freedom and equality has often been minimized in history books. However, with black women standi...

After years of requesting an all-black unit in the National Guard, the governor of New York finally put the order into place. In Jan...

In 1965, one of the last traceable remnants of Jim Crow ideology were thought to be taken off the books with the passage of the Voti...

The civil rights movement was an organized effort where African-Americans united and rallied to put black progressiveness at the for...

In 1932 the United States Public Health Service commissioned a study on the effects of untreated syphilis. 600 poor black men from A...

President Lyndon B. Johnson made it clear that a shift was greatly needed in America. No longer could we preach about a land of oppo...

Born in the heart of New Orleans, Louisiana, jazz made its way onto the scene. With African-Americans at the helm, the red-light dis...

The Double V Campaign was launched by a prominent black newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier, in 1942. The campaign came in response to...

Be Woke Presents Black History in Two Minutes (or so) htpps://blackhistoryintwominutes.com In 1983, Reverend Jesse Jackson launched...

Electrified by the rhetoric of Malcolm X, founding members Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale created an organization aimed at protectin...