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Black History to Spark Meaningful Conversations: A Resource List
Three graduate fellows at the University at Buffalo’s Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education have ...
Why is Trump punishing South Africa and who are the Afrikaners he wants to give refugee status to?
Trump's order stops hundreds of millions of dollars a year the U.S. gives South Africa, most of it to help its HIV/AIDS response. The U.S. gave South Africa around $440 million last year and funds 17% ...
Black History Month playlist: 25 songs of civil rights, protest and hope
Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...
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History professor uncovers story of Black people in the American Revolution
The history of the American Revolution is still segregated, Johnson said. If you search for photos of the American Revolution ...
Where ‘woke’ went wrong
Seemingly irresistible just a few years ago, movements aimed at addressing systemic inequalities are now in retreat. Can they ...
How Dinosaurs Changed American Identity
As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new American identity based on deep time. Digging deep into the ground to anchor the ...
Opinion
One family’s stories prove to be a window on Black struggle and persistence in American history
At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.
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Fighting For Freedom: The Black Patriots and Loyalists
As the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution approaches, historians are looking deeper into the roots of the nation’s ...
Don’t criticize Chiefs name, diversify: Let’s add the Samurai and the Tuskegee Airmen | Opinion
Maybe the answer to Native American symbols and team names isn’t less ethnicity, but more and better. From David Mastio: ...
A mural at SEPTA’s Independence Hall station misspells another historic name: Charles Willson Peale, an artist of the American Revolution
Faye Anderson, a public policy consultant and community historian, was on her way to Independence Hall a couple of weeks ago ...