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Brown v. Board of Education Smashing "separate but equal."
Black History Month 2004 From scientific innovations to artistic movements, black achievement of all kinds.
Past Imperfect: Independence Day 200 years ago, Haiti staged a revolution.
Researching Your Own (Black) History A conversation with genealogist Tony Burroughs.



1780
Massachusetts' Paul Cuffe files a petition protesting his taxation because he is not allowed to vote.  more >>




What Is Disfranchisement?  answer >>

What's your take on Kwanzaa?
It's an ancient, valuable holiday

It's a little artificial but filled with meaning

It's not for me


African American Inventors

Past Imperfect: King, For A Day

MLK Resource Center

Commemorating the Struggle Against Slavery

Past Imperfect: The Disappearing Negro

Past Imperfect: Santa's Road Dawg

Past Imperfect: Black Iraq

Past Imperfect: The House Negro Blues

Past Imperfect: The Rev in The Race

The Final Frontier: Blacks in Space

Past Imperfect: The Great American Hustle

Willie Lynch is Dead (1712?-2003)

Philippe Wamba, 1971-2002

March on Washington, 1963

Was Nefertiti a Hoax?
Posted on Wed 3 Sep 9:48am
Found on MSNBC, Submitted by gdanyelz

If anything, the documentary proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Egyptians, including their pharoahs...
African American DNA Remains Found in 1875 Virginia City NV
Posted on Thu 28 Aug 5:30pm
Found on Las Vegas Weekly, Submitted by jdwatk53

What lies below the charred floorboards of an 1875 redlight district establishment called the Boston Saloon?...
Big Apple Dance had Black Roots (no shock!)
Posted on Sun 24 Aug 8:56pm
Found on The State News (SC), Submitted by katekilla

Why does it always take until folks are dead or dying before their cultural contributions are finally...
Lynching, History and Legend
Posted on Sun 24 Aug 8:52pm
Found on The Ledger, Submitted by katekilla

What if Feraris Golden really did kill himself? Is the lynching story a way out for a family and community...
"The news about Wilberforce was really discouraging because it seems to indicate the beginning of a death spiral -- fewer majors mean fewer top..."

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"Black universities? Shouldn't we all be attending multiculture and diverse institutions. Afterall, we are training for the real world, not a black..."

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"Having read Tanu Henry's column about fraternities and having been dragged through the mud earlier this year from Deltas who had nothing else better..."

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"Having read Tanu Henry's column about fraternities and having been dragged through the mud earlier this year from Deltas who had nothing else better..."

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