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Trump Wants to Erase Black History. These Digital Archivists Are Racing to Save It
Donald Trump’s executive orders are attacking everything from the Smithsonian to Black sports history, but grassroots ...
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A Black history class was held under a tree at a Florida university
The Rosewood Massacre was just a short paragraph in one of Stephanie Borden’s textbooks when she was in grade school. “I did not get taught a lot of Black history from school,” the marine ...
Colorado bill that standardizes African American curriculum in schools heads to the governor’s desk
After passing through the Senate, a bill to establish standards for Black education in schools across Colorado heads to the ...
At Bryn Mawr, a Monumental Plaza Traces the Steps of Black History
Artist Nekisha Durrett’s latest piece of provocative public art illuminates a dark chapter in the history of the Philadelphia ...
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Bryn Mawr College illuminates the forgotten names of its historic Black staff
Let us know! When Washington, D.C.-based artist Nekisha Durrett visited Bryn Mawr College in 2023 to conceive a new monument to the school’s Black history, she thought about Enid Cook. Cook was Bryn ...
U.S. Department Education investigates Chicago Public Schools over Black Student Success Plan
The newest investigation is over a complaint that "CPS has an academic-achievement initiative that discriminates on the basis ...
Civil rights leaders rally around National Museum of African American History
Civil rights leaders launched a #HandsOffOurHistory campaign to rally to protect Black history from Trump's executive orders.
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Restoration work begins on historic Black school in Okahumpka
Hawkins, a Black lawyer from Okahumpka, made history when he sued the University of Florida after it refused him admission. Fields and other community members with ties to the Rosenwald school ...