African American history
- Diaspora & Global Africa
It Took 120 Years But the U.S. Just Made Lynching a Federal Hate Crime
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here.It’s taken 120 years, but the U.S. government…
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Website aims to highlight hidden figures in black history
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A few years back, Matthew Delmont felt his teaching about African American history had gotten a…
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African Americans
African Americans or Black Americans are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the…
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WILLIE & GEORGE MUSE – The Men From Mars
The Muse brothers had an incredible career. The story of the two black albino brothers from Roanoke, Virginia is unique…
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Georgetown Students Vote To Give Reparations To Descendants Of Slaves Sold To Fund School
If university officials agree, Georgetown would become one of the first major U.S. institutions to provide financial restitution for its…
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The Shocking Lynching of Will Brown 100 Years Ago
Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the…
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Blacks, Native Americans and Whites: A Tale of Three Peoples
As European settlements inched west, Black, white and Native Americans, fleeing forced labour within their confines, melted into the interior…
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Arlington cemetery and the expropriation of Black Capital
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYPbqOBY2XM[/embedyt][embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7SeCwz-icY[/embedyt] Sojourner Truth was outraged, but her feelings didn’t show in a letter she wrote about her meeting…
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Omaha race riot of 1919
The Omaha race riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, September 28–29, 1919. The race riot resulted in the brutal lynching of Will Brown, a black worker; the death of…
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