Black Women, Black Power, and the Afro
The revolutionary look of the Afro hairstyle during the Black Power era.
Photographs and stories that changed the world
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The revolutionary look of the Afro hairstyle during the Black Power era.
A symbol of hope and resilience, NC Mutual provided essential financial support to African American and working-class communities for more than a century.
Assata Shakur is a lasting symbol of resistance, political commitment, and global struggles for liberation.
The influence of writer and musician Gil Scott-Heron is widely felt. However, assessing his legacy involves figuring out just what kind of artist he was.
In his last and least known book, James Baldwin demonstrates how the Atlanta Child Murders were not an aberration but rather evidence of the failures of integration, the growing divide between the Black poor and the middle classes, and the need to claim the dead as our own.
African Americans were closely involved in the fight against South African apartheid, with cultural icons, legislators, civil rights activists, and athletes all playing their part to call attention to the issue and to ultimately pass sanctions against South Africa.
In one of the most iconic and celebrated heavyweight fights, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman clashed in Zaire in 1974.
The everyday lives and struggles of Black women in Atlanta reveal the roots of their activism.
Author of Soul on Ice and one of the most recognized activists for Black internationalism, Eldridge Cleaver went from militance to obscurity.
The famed choreographer used his art to emphasize the universal resonance of African American stories.