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A surprising partnership between rapper Jay-Z and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey will establish an academy to teach about bitcoin in New York.
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Lil Nas X believes a recent award snub reflects longstanding homophobia within the Black community and called out the BET Awards for it.
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A genealogist, teacher, and writer from Alabama became interested in Lett’s story when teaching middle school students genealogy, ELA, and social studies. She took them on a field trip to EJI’s Lynching Memorial, where they saw Oliver Lett’s name and realized that he was an ancestor of many of her students.
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100 years after George Tompkins’ hanging death was ruled a suicide, his death certificate has been updated to reflect the reality of his murder.
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America’s first newspaper dedicated to advocating for the end of slavery is being resurrected and reimagined more than two centuries later as the nation continues to grapple with its legacy of racism.
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Next week, the Black Film Archive — a living register of Black cinema — will officially turn six months old. We asked Maya Cade to select a favorite film from various decades of the archive, these are edited excerpts from the conversation.
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Fannie Lou Hamer is known as a Mississippi sharecropper who boldly fought for human rights. WORLD Channel and PBS partner to debut a new special that tells the activist’s story.
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When Dr. Amanda Calhoun spoke of her experience with racism as a black woman and doctor, she received pushback–and death threats.
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For months after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Washington DC, signs and posters hung near the White House. The Library of Congress has now added images of some of these works to a digital collection.
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By Curtis Bunn, NBC News Black people have been able to connect with the past and give new agency to their identities through building family trees and researching their family…
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