Search results
Sojourner Truth Legacy Plaza and Statue opens to public - Akron.com
West Side Leader & South Side News Leader· 2 days agoHundreds gathered on downtown Akron’s North High Street to witness the opening and dedication of the...
Sojourner Truth statue unveiled at the site of 1851 ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ speech
theGrio via AOL· 6 days agoTruth, a formerly enslaved person, delivered the speech to a crowd gathered at the Universalist...
Arts Briefs: A Sojourner Truth biographer comes to the Valley, a new take on a noted play, and more
Daily Hampshire Gazette· 2 days agoHistorian Nell Irvin Painter, the author of an acclaimed biography of Sojourner Truth, will visit...
Statue unveiled at the site where Sojourner Truth gave her 1851 'Ain't I a Woman?' speech
Erie News Now Plus· 6 days agoBy PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press
It never stops! | New Orleans' Multicultural News Source | The Louisiana Weekly
Louisiana Weekly· 5 days agoMarcus Garvey, SoJourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers, Ida B. Wells, Dr. M.L. King Jr. – even John Brown, a white man ...
The upside-down American flag goes mainstream as a form of right-wing protest
WUSF 89.7· 6 days agoAfter former President Donald Trump’s historic felony conviction, many of his supporters protested...
Ta-Nehisi Coates returns to nonfiction and explores the power of stories in upcoming ‘The Message’
theGrio· 6 days agoFor his first all-new book of nonfiction in nearly a decade, Ta-Nehisi Coates traveled the world. One World announced Thursday that Coates’ “The Message” will be published Oct. 1. “The Message ...
What the statue of a kneeling enslaved man in the Emancipation Memorial of 1876 tells us about its...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe image of a kneeling person in chains was first used in a seal commissioned by the Committee for...
Community, history and remembrance: Juneteenth events throughout the Hudson Valley
Times Herald-Record via Yahoo News· 1 day ago...the Harambee Kingston African Cultural Headquarters, Kingston The all-day event will feature theatrical performances by local actors portraying Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, as well as live music performances by Maxwell Kofi Donkor and the Sankofa Dancers & Drummers, Slam Allen, the...
An African American holiday predating Juneteenth was nearly lost to history. It's back.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 days ago“To connect with relatives and friends that they’re prevented from seeing.” The abolitionist ...