The Erasure of Jack Leslie
The hidden story of the English national team’s first Black footballer.
The hidden story of the English national team’s first Black footballer.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. opposed racism, imperialism, and capitalist inequity at home and around the world.
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
West Indian, especially Barbadian, migrant labor on the Panama Canal changed shipping routes, benefitted the U.S. economy, and affected immigration for decades afterward.
Four photographs capture how music embodies a long tradition of global Black engagement and the goal of justice for all Black people.
How Black Olympians turned a 1968 Olympics Cold War triumph into a momentous Black protest symbol
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A July 1964 protest at the United Nations headquarters in New York City began after the murder of 15-year-old African American James Powell by Thomas Gilligan, a white, off-duty police officer.
How a shared love of baseball fostered a meaningful friendship and a spirit of resistance.
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