As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me …
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Forgotten Figures
The names Bayard Rustin, Fannie Lou Hamer and Guion Bluford may not sound familiar, but their contributions to society have had a lasting impact. The first is responsible for organizing the peaceful 1963 March on Washington, the second pushed for the right for African Americans to vote and the third helped break the color barrier in space. Learn more about the overlooked but extraordinary people from the past and how their actions have shaped our future.
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They were the first ever contingent of black women in the US Women's Army Corps to be assigned to overseas service. The pioneering servicewomen made …
Joel Christian Gill is a cartoonist, historian, and associate professor of illustration at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He wrote the words and drew the pictures in the series Strange Fruit, Tales of The Talented Tenth, and Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence. Follow him on Twitter …
Like many African Americans living in the Jim Crow South, Fannie Lou Hamer was not aware she had voting rights. “I had never heard, until 1962, that …
The film Black in Space: Breaking the Color Barrier dives into the under-reported history of efforts to include people of color in the space race Most children who rise through the American education system are familiar with the US space program – or at least the story of the program’s achievements: …
Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license.
May 31, 2021, officially marked 100 years since the massacre that took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Thousands of Black men, women, children, and esteemed …
When founded in 1877, Nicodemus predated the mass migration of blacks to Kansas, Missouri, Indiana and Illinois that began in earnest a year later. …
The French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament is roiling as Naomi Osaka, one of the sport’s stars and a woman of color, has withdrawn in the face of …
In celebration of Black History Month, writer Riche Holmes Grant spotlights four Black women who changed history—and uplifted their communities in …
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