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Jan 17, 2018
This black woman’s beauty and talent made her a Hollywood star — her fight against racism made her a hero.
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Jan 10, 2018
Watch: Fredi Washington Refused to Live by Hollywood’s Racial Stereotypes
She was cast as a black girl passing for white, but she never denied her own heritage
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Jan 2, 2018
The black celebrity from Hollywood’s Golden Age who revealed the complexities of passing for white
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Dec 30, 2017
Two little-known events in Texas that threatened the progression of the Civil Rights movement.
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Dec 19, 2017
Watch: This racist, bumbling, blackface character is part of the Dutch holiday tradition
Zwarte Piet, or Black Pete, is one tradition it’s time to let go of
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Dec 11, 2017
The KKK might have died in obscurity if this sinister, racist woman didn’t come along
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Dec 6, 2017
Watch: The story behind “Strange Fruit,” the most haunting song about race in America
Billie Holiday made it famous, but Abel Meeropol wrote it
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Nov 7, 2017
Teen gangs in NYC brutally murdered a 15-year-old boy, two months before ‘West Side Story’ came out
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Oct 9, 2017
These garish postcards of racist stereotypes were once American keepsakes
Before mass media went…
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Sep 22, 2017
One of America’s smartest magazines published a Molotov cocktail how-to in 1967
‘A riot represents…
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