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A century ago, W.E.B. Du Bois published a short-lived magazine for Black families. Now it has been...
CNN via Yahoo News· 7 months agoW.E.B. Du Bois published the The Brownies’ Book for Black kids in the 1920s. Now, Karida L. Brown...
120 Inspiring Black History Month Quotes
Parade via Yahoo News· 4 months agoDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses a crowd in Jan. 1965. February is Black History Month and we've rounded up 120 inspiring Black History Month quotes...
Why quoting my book on racial justice is a problem for Christian college professors
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 12 months agoIn his classic book, "The Souls of Black Folk", renowned Black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois begins by...
How the Black aristocracy of the Gilded Age ushered in a new era of education and freedom
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 7 months agoW. E. B. Du Bois with the Fisk University class of 1888.Digital Collections, The New York Public...
Target Pulls Black History Month Item from Shelves for Misidentifying 3 Civil Rights Icons
People via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe magnet book incorrectly labels W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson Alex...
Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of the darkness; we're still waiting for the dawn
Gannett via AOL· 5 months ago“The darkness is so deep that we hardly see which way to turn.” The quote is from a 1962 sermon...
William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist, scholar and friend of Malcolm X, has died
theGrio via AOL· 1 month agoAmilcar Shabazz, a professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at University of Massachusetts, said Strickland followed […] The post William Strickland, a longtime civil ...
16 Lesser-Known Quotes From Influential Civil Rights Leaders
HuffPost Life via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFrom left: Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis. At a time when...
Margaret Sanger Did Not Advocate 'Exterminating the Negro Population'
Snopes via Yahoo News· 9 months agoLibrary of Congress Catalog/Wikimedia Commons A quote from birth control advocate and sometime...
Why is Black History Month celebrated in February?
CBS News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoBOSTON - It's a question often asked this month with an answer, not always known. Why is Black History Month in February? "That's a great question, and...