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Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she ...
If it’s one thing about Black folks, we know how to party! Another thing: While African American history and culture is ...
Today’s attacks on libraries, universities, and government agencies by the Trump administration hark back to some of the ...
The sisters of Denise McNair, who was killed during a racist bombing, hosts lunch and learns with young activists.
Before Rosa Parks changed history by refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Alabama bus ... to a fundraiser at Robinson’s Connecticut home. “My mother felt like she was in the presence ...
Six days earlier, at Ebbets Field, Jackie Robinson had worn the home whites of his Brooklyn Dodgers and doubled and scored ...
Trump’s education agenda is doing exactly what fascist regimes have always done: narrowing curriculum to a single, ...
There's always what we say, and what we mean, and a gap between the two; what we mean to do, and what we really do, and a gap ...
Al Capone was a known gourmand ... When civil right activist Rosa Parks died in 2005, among the papers she left behind was a bank envelope with a handwritten recipe for Featherlite pancakes.
What is Alabama famous for? Southern hospitality, civil rights history, peanuts and pecan pie are things to experience in ...
Ethel Halley praised her mother, known as "the Rosa Parks of affordable housing," but made sure everyone knew it was a community-wide effort. "You'll see 'Ethel Lawrence et al.' [on the court ...