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Nina Renata Aron
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Apr 27, 2018
Muhammad Ali wouldn’t go to war for a country that didn’t value black lives
With this act of defiance…
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Heather Tirado Gilligan
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Apr 3, 2018
A white mob wiped this all-black Florida town off the map. 60 years later their story was finally told
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Andrew Belonsky
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Mar 5, 2018
How the NAACP fought lynching… with pictures of a man being lynched
Nothing was censored — and that…
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Martin Johnson
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Feb 25, 2018
It’s been 50 years since Hendrix’s ‘
Electric Ladyland’
blew our minds
The double album blurred the…
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Feb 21, 2018
The first black-owned record label in the U.S. wanted to “uplift” black people through music
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Donnell Alexander
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Feb 20, 2018
In the 1970s, comedy fans found the dirty truth in the grooves of Laff Records
The “party record”…
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Brendan Seibel
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Feb 11, 2018
He showed up to photography school before he owned a camera; now his work can be seen in galleries
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Donnell Alexander
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Feb 7, 2018
Brought to Mexico in chains, Gaspar Yanga and his followers staged a bloody rebellion
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Laura Smith
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Feb 6, 2018
After the Anita Hill hearings, dialogue around black sexual harassment was dominated by wealthy, mostly white voices
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Nina Renata Aron
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Feb 6, 2018
She was a maid at 9, wrote a hit song at 11 — and won a Grammy at 93
Elizabeth Cotten was never…
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