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Category: Black History

**FILE** Martin Luther King speaking at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History

Original MLK Speech from 1963 Returning to African American Museum

by WI Web EditorJanuary 13, 2022January 13, 2022
**FILE** Rosa Parks with Lani Guinier at a 1993 march on Washington (John Mathew Smith/www.celebrity-photos.com via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Obituary, Stacy M. Brown

Lani Guinier, Legal Scholar and Civil Rights Champion, Dies

by Stacy M. BrownJanuary 8, 2022January 10, 2022
**FILE** Sidney Poitier (www.celebrity-photos.com via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBlack History, Entertainment, Obituary

Sidney Poitier, Iconic Actor and Trailblazer for Blacks in Hollywood, Dead at 94

by Stacy M. BrownJanuary 7, 2022January 7, 2022
Mary Alice Jervay Thatch (Courtesy of NNPA Newswire)
Posted inBlack History, Obituary, Stacy M. Brown

Mary Alice Jervay Thatch, Freedom Fighter and Publisher of Wilmington Journal, Dies at 78

by WI Guest AuthorDecember 29, 2021December 29, 2021
Robert "Bobby" Grier Sr. (Courtesy photo)
Posted inBlack History, Sports

Remembering Bobby Grier Sr., First Black to Play in Sugar Bowl

by WI Guest AuthorDecember 21, 2021December 27, 2021
Posted inBlack History, Hamil R. Harris, Obituary, Sports

Lee Elder, Who Broke the Glass Ceiling for Blacks in Golf, Dead at 87

by Hamil R. HarrisDecember 1, 2021
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, National, Stacy M. Brown

‘Groveland Four’ Exonerated in 1949 Rape Case

by Stacy M. BrownNovember 22, 2021December 21, 2021
Courtesy of Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History

Edward J. Clarke Scrubbed from MDDC Hall of Fame After Racist Publishings Unearthed

by WI Guest AuthorNovember 10, 2021December 21, 2021
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., National Hero of Jamaica and leader of the Back to Africa movement sits in the back of a car in a parade through Harlem circa 1920 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, National

Son of Marcus Garvey Continues Fight for Father’s Posthumous Pardon

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior EditorOctober 27, 2021December 21, 2021
Henrietta Lacks
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, National

Henrietta Lacks’ Family Sues Biotech Company, Accuses It of Using Her Cells ‘For Profit’

by WI Guest AuthorOctober 4, 2021December 21, 2021

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