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Presidents Day, Meet Black History Month
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA first edition of the book "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral", by Phillis Wheatley. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty...
Wheatley School remembered in Hartshorne
McAlester News-Capital, Okla. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFeb. 25—HARTSHORNE — Eddie Kelly and Mary Beth Neighbors want to keep the memory of Hartshorne's former all-Black school alive. The women smiled as they shared memories from attending grade ...
A Banned Book on Racism Becomes a Gripping Netflix Documentary
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIn the spring of 2022, Ibram X. Kendi was recognized as one of the most banned authors in America....
31 Black History Facts You May Not Have Learned in School
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFrom the hidden figures who made an impact, essential Black inventors, change-making civil rights...
Worcester County Wonders: A treasure trove of American history in our own backyard
Gannett via AOL· 4 months agoWORCESTER - If you were to learn Worcester is home to one of the largest collections of written work...
Truth Hall, FAMU’s last standing residence hall named after a woman, comes tumbling down
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe land under FAMU’s last historic women’s residence hall, named after abolitionist and women’s...
Houston educators brace for Abbott's takeover of public school district
Yahoo News· 1 year agoTexas Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to seize control of Houston’s public school district and install a...
‘Stamped From the Beginning’ Review: Roger Ross Williams’ Absorbing but Limited Doc Recasts Black...
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThis festival season brought with it a pair of ambitious adaptations of scholarly texts. In Venice,...
USC renames dorm for Celia Dial Saxon, a celebrated Columbia educator during Jim Crow
The State via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCelia Dial Saxon was born into slavery just a block from the University of South Carolina’s campus....
‘We Can’t Stay Where We Are’: The Democrat Behind the Houston Schools Takeover
The 74 via Yahoo News· 12 months agoIn the weeks since the Texas Education Agency took over the Houston Independent School District,...