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Category: Black History

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker coined the term womanism and penned "The Color Purple," a story that continues to inspire audiences today. (Courtesy photo)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Black History Month

Alice Walker: A Trailblazer in Womanism and Literature 

by Sam P.K. CollinsJanuary 31, 2024February 5, 2024
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‘Welcome Black’ Launches Black History Month with Notable Local Artists

by WI Web EditorJanuary 30, 2024January 31, 2024
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ASALH Hosts 98th Annual Black History Month Festival Luncheon

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James “Bun” McKoy (standing third from left), a member of the civil rights and political prisoner group the Wilmington Ten, died on Nov. 10 at the age of 69. (Courtesy photo)
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Funeral for James ‘Bun’ McKoy, Member of the Wilmington Ten, Set for Friday

by Stacy M. BrownNovember 16, 2023November 17, 2023
Washington Informer photographer Roy Lewis poses with the statue of his former boss, the late John H. Johnson, at the unveiling of a Johnson statue in Arkansas City, Arkansas.
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Statue Honoring Renowned Publisher John H. Johnson Unveiled in Arkansas City

by Stacy M. BrownNovember 13, 2023November 17, 2023
Mélisande Short-Colomb, a onetime Georgetown University student whose ancestors were sold as slaves by the institution nearly two centuries ago, passionately speaks about the people buried beneath the campus's Reiss Science building during a libation ceremony at the school on Nov. 5. (Matthew Bailey/The Washington Informer)
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Libation Ceremony Honors the 272 Enslaved People Sold by Georgetown University

by Ra-Jah S. KellyNovember 10, 2023November 13, 2023
Medgar Evers
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Mississippi Leaders Unite in Plea to Honor Medgar Evers with Medal of Freedom

by Stacy M. BrownNovember 7, 2023November 7, 2023
Dr. Calvin W. Rolark Sr. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
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The Washington Informer Celebrates 59 Years

by James Wright Jr.October 11, 2023October 12, 2023
In this postcard from the collection of McFarlin Library at the University of Tulsa, a photo from on top of the Santa Fe Freight office at 1st Street and Elgin Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is seen, showing the fires on Archer towards Greenwood. The Goodner-Malone company (1 N. Frankfurt) building is in the center of the photo. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBlack History, National, Stacy M. Brown

Hughes Van Ellis, One of the Last Three Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors, Dies at 102

by Stacy M. BrownOctober 10, 2023October 10, 2023
The Sixteenth Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, where four little girls were murdered after the Ku Klux Klan set a bomb in September 1963 (Micha Green/The Washington Informer)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History

Remembering the Four Little Girls 60 Years Later

by Micha GreenSeptember 15, 2023September 15, 2023

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