Black History Month - Page 12
The exhibit, which opened in 2010, honors the lives of the nine enslaved people held there who were owned as property by President George Washington.
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers gave a televised speech in 1963 on the local station WLBT, speaking out against segregation in Mississippi.
On what would have been Assata Shakur’s 79th birthday, the Assata Shakur Memorial Committee launches a new digital archive to honor the legendary freedom fighter.
After the weather took a turn during their display of white patriot pride, MAGA had to take refuge inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Cardi B praises Black Americans' fight for equality, says it enabled immigrant communities like hers to thrive in the US.
In 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, Black people in Galveston, Texas were finally liberated.
The GOP's complex relationship with Black Americans, from early civil rights to recent controversies over race and identity.
With the recent success of rising rock band The Paradox, we looked back at the Black pioneers of alternative music who helped pave the way.
Black music has always moved the culture. Without us, 85% of popular music, fashion, language, and mannerisms wouldn’t exist. The real story, though, isn’t just about the artists and tastemakers. It’s about ownership. Who controlled the masters? Who owned the publishing? Who built the infrastructure? For over a century, Black creatives have fought not just […]
The NAACP put its full support behind the Living Wage For All bill, which aims to raise minimum wage to at least $30 in NY and $25 federally.
Before she was a legend and icon, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was paving the way for generations of Black women in medicine as the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. Born Rebecca Davis in Delaware in 1831, Crumpler was raised by an auntie in Pennsylvania who helped care for sick […] The post BOSSIP’s Black History Hidden Gems: Monumental Medical Matriarch Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler Defied Racism & Sexism As The First Black Woman Physician In The U.S. appeared first on Bossip.
Black women leaders like Rev. Bradley continue century-long fight for social, political, and economic justice despite challenges and exhaustion.