racism
Ghosts of Memphis’ slave past: Fallout over renaming Confederate parks
February 25, 2013The effort to rename Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, a memorial to the Confederate General, pre-war slave trader, and post-war founder of the Ku Klux Klan, recently began.
Read moreToday in black history: Harold Washington won the mayoral primary in Chicago
February 22, 2013In 1983, Washington won the Democratic mayoral primary and later was elected the first African-American Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1983 until his death in 1987.
Read moreToday in black history: Actor Sidney Poitier born
February 20, 2013Born to Bahamian parents in Miami, Fla., while they were selling produce from their island farm, Poitier began life in humble working-class circumstances, which he never forgot.
Read moreThe Second Amendment and racism
February 19, 2013The Second Amendment continues to provide cover for racism just as its original intent was to protect slavery.
Read moreToday in black history: National Negro Congress formed
February 14, 2013On this day, in 1935 the National Negro Congress held its first convention in Chicago. 817 delegates attended. The group grew out of a conference at Howard University on the economic status of African American Americans...
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