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MORIAL: Deep South States Take Long-Overdue Step Out of Jim Crow Past
The Urban League Movement congratulates two states in the Deep South that took a step out of the dark Jim…
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade: 500 Years Later, Are We Still Slaves?
Even now, millions of Americans of recognizably African descent languish in societal backwaters, according to historians and experts on slavery.
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EDITOR’S COLUMN: Lynching While Lunching? This, Too, is America’s History
I wonder if returning to those so-called days of greatness seek to resurrect an era of "two" Americas — one…
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Recy Taylor, Victim of 1944 Gang Rape, Dies at 97
Recy Taylor, the young mother and sharecropper who spearheaded an anti-rape activism movement in the Jim Crow South after being…
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SEWELL: The Cost of a Vote
For those of us watching the attack on voting rights unfold, we have a responsibility to speak up and speak…
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Booker T. Washington: From Slavery to Presidential Adviser
African-American leader Booker T. Washington, the son of an unknown white man and the last generation of black leaders born…
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BUSINESS EXCHANGE: What Is Capitalism for Blacks?
It's time that African-Americans got it right. Across America, the name of the game is "capitalism."
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Black Memorabilia & Collectible Show Coming to Baltimore
The Baltimore Black Memorabilia & Collectible Show will be held Saturday, Feb. 11 at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of…
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John Lewis Should ‘Thank’ White Men for Civil Rights, Says Maine Governor
Civil rights leader John Lewis has white men to thank for the civil rights advancements black Americans have seen, according…
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Bent on Progress
I recently had the wonderful opportunity to appear in the two-part series "Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise,"…
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