Nina Simone’s Life in Music and Activism
The performer’s transformation from jazz to politics during the Civil Rights Era
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The performer’s transformation from jazz to politics during the Civil Rights Era
How Paul Robeson sang to 35,000 Canadians without crossing the border
Despite systemic racism, Black soldiers forced their way into parachute training and took one major step toward integration.
Portraits of Frederick Douglass, the most photographed American of the nineteenth century, illuminate his life and career as an abolitionist.
Initially written off as “crazy,” the New Orleans Sniper’s ideas reflected a more widely held sentiment of rage among Black youth.
The Influential Life of Norma Elizabeth Boyd, a founding member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.
An Easter Sermon with Dr. Benjamin E. Mays at South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC
Gladys Bentley consistently and unapologetically broke the unspoken rules of gender norms
Much of what is widely embraced about the famous activist and orator is mythology, while the truth lives in the shadows.
Galvanized by new electoral laws after the Civil War, thousands of Black men ran for public office both locally and nationally.
Josiah T. Walls was one of them.
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