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The Black Church
Religion as we know it infiltrated the black community during slavery. While the objective leaned on pacifying slaves, black people...
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers: Perform the Spirituals and Save Their University
Fisk University was founded in Nashville, Tenn. in 1866. As an institution for African-American students, their first years of incep...
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Booker T. Washington
In 1872, Booker T. Washington traveled 500 miles on foot to the Hampton Institute in Virginia. That journey, in turn, laid the found...
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Jackie Robinson Integrates Baseball
During a time when the game of baseball lacked diversity, America’s beloved sport was on the brink of a major change when black spor...
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Sojourner Truth: ‘Oprah’s No. 1 Black History Heroine’
Isabella Baumfree was born into slavery in the late 18th century. Despite this, she’d go on to prove that enslavement was only a sta...
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Separate But Equal: Homer Plessy and the Case That Upheld the Color Line
In June of 1882, a 30-year-old shoemaker by the name of Homer Plessy of New Orleans led a revolution that aimed to overturn Jim Crow...
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Convict Leasing | Black History in Two Minutes or So
Although the 13th Amendment passed the Senate in 1864 and the House in 1865, the loopholes that exist continue to wreak havoc on the...
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Black Feminism
Black women and their commitment to freedom and equality has often been minimized in history books. However, with black women standi...
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Affirmative Action
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...
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The Birth of a Nation & The Origins of the NAACP
In 1915, D.W. Griffith, released a film that would go down as one of the most disturbing representations of black Americans ever, Th...
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