The Incredible Black Canadian Women You Should Know
Refinery29 via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIn the moments when I’ve gotten to look out at a 16-year-old Black teen and make her feel less alone, I’ve loved Black History Month. If you’re sick of...
'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?': The History of Frederick Douglass' Searing Independence...
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAmerica has been working to fully live up to the ideals laid out in the Declaration of Independence...
Dear Academy: Was ‘Harriet’ Really the Best of Black Cinema Last Year? (Guest Blog)
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSlavery and the Civil War are pivots of American history, and over the years, Hollywood has covered...
History Shows the Problem With Focusing on Whether a Protest Is Nonviolent
Time via Yahoo News· 10 months agoSeventy-four percent of Americans support the demonstrations, and that support is relatively...
The True Story of Harriet Tubman Shows That Sometimes Running Is as Brave as Fighting
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn the early morning hours of Aug. 28, 1955, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam arrived at the Mississippi...
Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The remarkable life of one of the first black female newspaper editors in the...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 6 months agoGoogle’s 9 October doodle celebrates the 197th birthday of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, an American-Canadian...
Horrors of slavery at center of Janelle Monae's 'Antebellum'
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoJanelle Monae says she “felt so much rage and anger” when she stepped onto a former slave plantation...
‘Harriet,’ Fact v. Fiction: ‘Of Course I Embellished. I’m a Screenwriter.’
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLemmons’ primary sources were Tubman biographies, including “Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman,”...
'Antebellum' is mostly set on a plantation. But the directors reject the label 'slavery horror'
LA Times via Yahoo News· 7 months agoFor first-time feature filmmakers Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, the process of bringing...
Millard Fillmore’s Fast Track From Presidential Nobody to Racist Pariah
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOn the expanding list of canceled honors for the perpetrators of slavery and racism—think Andrew...