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Video: While one month is certainly not enough to celebrate and honor Black History, we can still take this month as an opportunity to do what we should be doing every month, namely give the proper...
View ArticleWe should dispel our ignorance during Black History Month
By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, February 1, 2012 Yes, today, we have a president who is a black American, and de jure segregation is a thing of the past. But we don’t yet have a shared history of who we...
View ArticleLet us cheer the desegregation of neighborhoods
By Akilah Bolden-Monifa, February 9, 2012 Racial segregation between blacks and whites has declined for four consecutive decades, according to a study based on census records through 2010 from the...
View ArticleOn the 300th anniversary of a slave revolt, we need to learn its lessons
By Brian Gilmore, April 6, 2012 On April 6, 1712, African slaves in New York City rose up with anger and fury. These African men and women — enslaved and oppressed into an inhuman system — had reached...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Paul Robeson
By Paul Marx, April 9, 2013 Reflections from a man who was went to Peekskill to hear Robeson perform and had rocks hurled at his bus.read more
View ArticleRemembering Mayor Harold Washington, 30 years later
By Salim Muwakkil, May 3, 2013 Thirty years ago this week, Harold Washington was sworn in as Chicago’s first black mayor, so it’s a good time to assess more fully the import of his path-breaking...
View ArticleWhy You Should Go See '12 Years A Slave'
By Starita Smith, Oct. 30, 2013 Facing the truth about the brutality of slavery is vital to our nation's health.read more
View ArticleReminder: Zora Neale Hurston Was An Outspoken Atheist
By Rebecca Watson, Skepchick, Jan. 7, 2014 Google's famous 'doodle' celebrates one of America's first famous nonbelievers.read more
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