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Tag: Black History

Posted inNational, Politics

Trump Orders Flags Lowered at Half Staff in Honor of John Lewis

by Shevry LassiterJuly 18, 2020December 21, 2021
Nathan M. Richardson portrays Frederick Douglass in D.C.'s Lincoln Park on June 26. (Photo by Bruce Guthrie)
Posted inLifestyle

Nathan Richardson to Honor Frederick Douglass at D.C.’s Lincoln Park

by WI Guest AuthorJuly 2, 2020December 21, 2021
Matilda McCrear, last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade (Courtesy photo)
Posted inBlack History, Stacy M. Brown, Women's Suffrage Movement

Remarkable Story of Final Transatlantic Slave Survivor Reveals She Died in 1940

by Stacy M. BrownApril 22, 2020December 21, 2021
Medgar Evers
Posted inOp-Ed, Opinion

BAILEY: Black Students Must Be Taught the Legacy of Medgar Evers

by WI Guest AuthorMarch 18, 2020December 21, 2021
On the road again (Courtesy photo)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

Filmmaker Documents Grandparents’ Travel in RV During Civil Rights Era

by Stacy M. BrownMarch 11, 2020December 21, 2021
Harriet Tubman
Posted inBlack History, Stacy M. Brown

Weather Critical in Success of Underground Railroad

by Stacy M. BrownMarch 4, 2020December 21, 2021
Rep. John Lewis in a vintage photo taken in Selma, Alabama (Courtesy of John Lewis via Twitter)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

Documenting History: Rep. John Lewis Leads 55th Anniversary Selma March

by Stacy M. BrownMarch 4, 2020December 21, 2021
Rita Daniels, maternal great-great-great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History

Tubman Descendants Commit to Fighting Illiteracy

by Sam P.K. CollinsFebruary 26, 2020December 21, 2021
President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on Aug. 6, 1965. (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

Education of MLK’s Life, Legacy Critical for Young People, Advocates Say

by WI Guest AuthorFebruary 25, 2020December 21, 2021
Frances "Fannie" Barrier Williams
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown, Women's Suffrage Movement

Frances ‘Fannie’ Barrier Williams a Champion for Women’s Suffrage, African Americans

by Stacy M. BrownFebruary 19, 2020December 21, 2021

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