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Exactly How ‘Black’ Is Black America?
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. examines DNA databases to learn how Black the country’s Black residents really are… to surprising results.
More Black Men in Jail Than in College? Wrong
Ivory A. Toldson dispels a persistent myth about Black men that both perpetuates and is spread by racism.
Why the Onion’s Crappy Apology Is Worthless
The Onion set Twitter on fire with a message that some feel doesn’t go with the company’s reputation for comedy.
A baby, the N word and a slap for Jonah Bennett
According to a child’s mother and at least one witness, a man on an airplane used a racial slur before slapping a nearby Black baby.
Remembering Trayvon Martin on the First Anniversary of His Death
One year after a boy lost his life at the hands of a neighbor, we ponder senseless acts of violence against the Black community.
Happy Birthday, ABHM!
America’s Black Holocaust Museum celebrates its first year as a successful virtual museum, revealing American history to an global audience.
Lil Wayne, Emmett Till Backlash: Rapper Faces Scrutiny Over Rap Lyric
From the Huffington Post, Black Voices [T]he Grammy Award-winner is making headlines once again for his cameo on Future’s recently leaked track titled, “Karate Chop.” The song which is set to appear this weekend on DJ Smallz’s upcoming mixtape “This Is That Southern Smoke Vol. 4,” finds the New Orleans native making an explicit reference to…
Film ‘Lincoln’ inspires Mississippi to officially ban slavery
By Sarah Muller, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC.com The Oscar-nominated film Lincoln starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field details the political maneuvering behind the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery. But a century and a half after President Abraham Lincoln’s death, Lincoln is still fighting to end slavery. In 1865, the 13th…
Exonerating the Scottsboro Nine
This landmarked case changed criminal justice permanently, and now the victims of a false accusation have been posthumously pardoned.
Abolitionists Rescue Fugitive Slave from Boston Courtroom
The arrest of Shadrach Minkins, the first person to be arrested in New England under fugitive slave laws, catalyzed the grater rebellion.
This Day in History, the NAACP Was Founded
From Wikipedia The NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909 by a diverse group composed of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimké, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, William English Walling (the last son of a former slave-holding family), Florence Kelley, a social reformer and friend of Du Bois, and Charles Edward Russell, a renowned muckraker and close friend of Walling who helped…
The “Black National Anthem” First Performed on This Date in 1900
Two brothers are responsible for the song that some people know as the Black National Anthem, first performed more than 100 years ago.
Meet the Newest Black Senator
The newest senator from Massachusetts, William “Mo” Cowan, is one of the most powerful Black politicians in the nation.
Confederate past: Uproar over changing park names
by Adrian Sainz, Associated Press, theGrio.com MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The statue of Confederate fighter Nathan Bedford Forrest astride a horse towers above the Memphis park bearing his name. It’s a larger-than-life tribute to the warrior still admired by many for fiercely defending the South in the Civil War — and scorned by others for…
Happy Birthday, Reverend John Rankin, Dedicated Abolitionist!
Reverend John Rankin worked toward equality through his religious weapons and work on the Underground Railroad.
Two Black Scientists Receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
James Gates and George Carruthers have received medals from the Obama administration for their work in science.
Black History Month Has Been an Epic Failure
Black History Month is well known, but the history of Black people before slavery is still a mystery to most people.
What Was the 2nd Middle Passage?
Henry Louis Gates Jr. writes about the forcible movement of enslaved people after they were already on American soil.