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Black Music Artists Built Country Music-It Left Them Behind

November 18, 2025 0 879

Over the past few months, a contentious debate has raged over whether Lil Nas X, whose single...

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‘Ghettos’ Didn’t Always Mean Black

September 22, 2025 0 48

Today, for many Americans, the word “ghetto” conjures images of run-down and crime-ridden African American segregated areas—“inner...

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• Advocacy & Activism
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• Congress & Legislators
• Electoral Politics

Raise $12 Million by 2020 for Black Candidates

October 11, 2019 0 46

Black candidates received a significant boost in the 2018 midterm elections due to the strategy of the...

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• Slavery & Abolition

Over 204 African American Slave Rebellions

December 5, 2025 0 660

The history of chattel slavery from 1619 to 1863 is a history of African-American slave rebellions. It...

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• Civil Rights / Integrationist / Nonviolent

Take The African American Leadership Quiz

September 9, 2025 0 46

On random pages and posts throughout this site, versions of The African American Leadership Quiz will be...

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• Black Panther Party

Black Panther (1969) by Emory Douglas, graphic artist and former Black Panther Birthday party Minister of Tradition. Drawing upon photographs…

November 5, 2025 0 126

Black Panther (1969) by Emory Douglas, graphic artist and former Black Panther Birthday party Minister of Tradition....

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• Voting Rights & Democracy Policy

African American Woman Going to Prison for Voting

November 5, 2025 0 51

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Sep 06, 2018 On Nov. 8, 2016, Crystal Mason, an African-American...

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• Black Artists Athletes & Entertainers

See hip-hop evolve through photos at the African American History and Culture Museum

November 5, 2025 0 46

Public Enemy in 1987 by Jack Mitchell. (Image courtesy Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and...

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• Racial Violence, Riots, & Rebelliions

By removing victims from lynching photos, an artist emphasizes those erased from history

December 3, 2025 0 40

“Erased Lynching Series: der Wild West Show,” (Set 1) by Ken Gonzalez-Day, 2006. (Courtesy of the artist...

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• Reconstruction and Post Reconstruction

Black Reconstruction in The US 1860-1880 – Excerpt – W.E.B. Du Bois

November 5, 2025 0 45

“One reads the more true deeper records of Reconstruction with despair. It is without delay so primary...

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