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Gertrude Mossell (Nathan Francis Mossell via Wikimedia Commons)

Black History, Stacy M. Brown, Women's Suffrage Movement

Suffragist Gertrude Mossell Taught Black and Women’s History

by Stacy M. Brown March 4, 2020December 21, 2021

Harriet Tubman

Black History, Stacy M. Brown

Weather Critical in Success of Underground Railroad

by Stacy M. Brown March 4, 2020December 21, 2021

Blacks enjoy a day at the beach in segregated America. (Courtesy photo)

Black Experience, Black History

Beaches Provide Refuge for Blacks During Jim Crow Era

by WI Guest Author March 4, 2020December 21, 2021

Rep. John Lewis in a vintage photo taken in Selma, Alabama (Courtesy of John Lewis via Twitter)

Black Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

Documenting History: Rep. John Lewis Leads 55th Anniversary Selma March

by Stacy M. Brown March 4, 2020December 21, 2021

Rita Daniels, maternal great-great-great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)

Black Experience, Black History

Tubman Descendants Commit to Fighting Illiteracy

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. February 26, 2020December 21, 2021

Program honorees pose for the camera. (Hamil R. Harris/The Washington Informer)

Black History, Hamil R. Harris, Sports

Negro Leagues Legends Honored in Prince George’s

by Hamil R. Harris February 26, 2020December 21, 2021

President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on Aug. 6, 1965. (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum via Wikimedia Commons)

Black Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

Education of MLK’s Life, Legacy Critical for Young People, Advocates Say

by WI Guest Author February 25, 2020December 21, 2021

Katherine Johnson

Black Experience, Black History

Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician of ‘Hidden Figures’ Fame, Dies at 101

by WI Guest Author February 24, 2020December 21, 2021

Harriet Tubman

Black Experience, Black History

Black History Interwoven with Suffrage Centennial

by WI Guest Author February 20, 2020December 21, 2021

Malcolm X

Remembering El Hajj Malik El Shabazz

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor February 19, 2020December 21, 2021