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Category: Black History

**FILE** Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. of the television show "Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life" speaks during the 2019 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena in Pasadena, California, on Feb. 2, 2019. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

New Interactive Website Featuring Henry Louis Gates Tracks Slave Voyages

by WI Guest AuthorMarch 5, 2019October 31, 2020
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Local Leaders Step Up to Protect Sacred Remains of ‘Sugar Land 95’

by WI Guest AuthorMarch 4, 2019October 31, 2020
Roumania and Margaret Peters at Tuskegee Institute (University), c. 1937 – 1941 (Courtesy photo)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History

Black Georgetown Remembered: Serving Up Talent

by Dr. Shantella Y. ShermanFebruary 27, 2019October 31, 2020
Photo by Hamil R. Harris/The Washington Informer
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Hamil R. Harris

Man’s Harrowing Jim Crow-Era Stories Brought to Life by Son

by Hamil R. HarrisFebruary 27, 2019October 31, 2020
This African-American female legal mastermind, pictured with Thurgood Marshall, drafted what would become the argument for Brown v. Board. (Courtesy photo)
Posted inBlack History

African-American History Trivia Challenge

by Dr. Shantella Y. ShermanFebruary 27, 2019October 31, 2020
Police contribute to the confusion during white mob violence at a newly integrated federal D.C.-area pool in 1949. (Courtesy photo)
Posted inBlack History

African-American History Trivia Challenge

by Dr. Shantella Y. ShermanFebruary 20, 2019October 31, 2020
Thalia Nash-Mwaipaja revisited her Old Georgetown home recently with Washington Informer staff to discuss the love she maintains for the people and its history. (Shantella Y. Sherman/The Washington Informer)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History

Notes and Footnotes to a Life in Georgetown

by WI Guest AuthorFebruary 20, 2019October 31, 2020
African Americans wait for a northbound train in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1921. (Courtesy of Upfront Scholastic)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History

The Great Migration from the South Defines America

by James Wright Jr.February 20, 2019October 31, 2020
Elizabeth Freeman (Face2Face Africa)
Posted inBlack History, Stacy M. Brown

Celebrating ‘Mum Bett,’ a Black Woman Who Help Defeat Slavery

by Stacy M. BrownFebruary 20, 2019October 31, 2020
T. Thomas Fortune
Posted inBlack History

T. Thomas Fortune: Social Justice Advocate, Publisher, Editor and Businessman

by WI Guest AuthorFebruary 20, 2019October 31, 2020

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