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What’s the Right Term: POC, BIPOC, or Neither?

What are the correct terms to use when referring to non-white people in the United States? POC, BIPOC? It depends upon who you ask.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Ghana’s message to African Americans is “Come home”

Ghana’s government is hoping to tap into the current mood of reflection and resistance to strengthen its pitch targeting people of African descent in the diaspora.

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Some Exhibits to Come – I Am Somebody! The Freedom Struggle

March on Washington 1963

A sample list of exhibits planned for this gallery.

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Bibliography – I Am Somebody! The Struggle for Justice

These sources include writing by and about the leaders and unsung heroes of the struggle for justice waged by black Americans and their white allies in the 1950s to 1970s.

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The Freedom-Lovers’ Roll Call Wall

ABHM calls on people everywhere to work for liberty and justice for all. Stand with us by signing our Freedom Lovers’ Pledge. Let others know of your commitment by putting your name (and photo if you’re willing) alongside other Freedom Lovers on our Roll Call Wall. Thank you!

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Our Four Themes: Remembrance, Resistance, Redemption, Reconciliation

Ida B. Wells

In each Gallery of this virtual museum you will find exhibits reflecting one or more of our Four Themes: Remembrance, Resistance, Redemption, and Reconciliation.

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White Kid Wears KKK Costume To School As An Assignment… With Teacher’s Approval

Kid wears KKK costume to school to honor Klan leader.

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AfriCOBRA: the collective that helped shape the black arts movement

This article touches on AfriCOBRA, an organization that helped push the black arts movement forward.

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Bayard Rustin: Unsung Architect of the Civil Rights Movement

Why haven’t more people heard about Bayard Rustin? Rustin organized sit-ins and freedom rides some twenty years before the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. He was the person who convinced Dr. King to use nonviolence in the Montgomery bus boycott, and he organized King’s 1963 March on Washington. Learn why Bayard Rustin remains an unsung hero despite his groundbreaking work over a long lifetime.

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Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X

Hamden Rice writes about Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact his life has on Black Americans who lived in terror of white violence.

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