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Gregory Hines

Black History, Entertainment

Gregory Hines Honored with U.S. Postage Stamp

by WI Guest Author January 29, 2019October 31, 2020

A mural depicting the Freedom's Journal mural is seen outside the offices of the Dallas Weekly, a newspaper that reports on events in the African-American community in Dallas. (NNPA Newswire)

Black History Month: Two Centuries of Black History and the Black Press

by WI Guest Author January 22, 2019October 31, 2020

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X waiting for press conference, March 26, 1964. (Photo: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

Black Experience, Black History

Little-Known Facts About MLK

by WI Guest Author January 21, 2019October 31, 2020

The Full Circle Festival in Ghana (Courtesy photo)

Black Experience, Black History

The Transatlantic Slave Trade – Africans Urged to ‘Come Home’

by WI Guest Author January 18, 2019October 31, 2020

Much of the wealth generated by the transatlantic slave trade supported the creation of industries and institutions in modern North America and Europe. (iStockphoto/NNPA)

Black Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

The Transatlantic Slave Trade: 500 Years Later, the Diaspora Still Suffers

by WI Guest Author January 4, 2019October 31, 2020

Sharon Caples McDougle (right) and Mae Jemison (Courtesy of NNPA Newswire)

Black Experience, Black History, Lifestyle

Sharon Caples McDougle, NASA’s Modern Day ‘Hidden Figure’

by WI Guest Author December 28, 2018October 31, 2020

**FILE** A mural of Freedom Riders who were arrested in Jackson at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi on December 7, 2017. (Photo by Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Black Experience, Black History

National Park Service Seeks Mississippi Sites to Build Monuments to Civil Rights Struggle

by WI Guest Author December 26, 2018October 31, 2020

A coalition of NYC Black Lives Matter activists and environmental justice groups marching on the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X to demand justice for the people of Flint, Michigan. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Black Experience, Black History

From Slavery to Civil Rights and Environmental Racism

by WI Guest Author December 24, 2018October 31, 2020

Board members of the historical Black preservation project in Georgetown - Mt. Zion Church - Female Union Band Society Cemetery at a libation ceremony (Courtesy of Mt. Zion Church-FUBS)

Black History, Community

Historic Black Cemeteries in Georgetown Recognized by UN

by WI Guest Author December 19, 2018October 31, 2020

Gladys West

Black Experience, Black History

Gladys West, GPS Pioneer, Inducted into Air Force Hall of Fame

by WI Guest Author December 17, 2018October 31, 2020