Cruel irony of segregated dedication ceremony has given way to reverence and rallies.
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Hubert Harrison: Harlem’s ‘Black Socrates’
Shocked by American racism, Caribbean immigrant pushed education and self-empowerment
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1964 Sullivan Decision Drew a Line on Libel
Justices set daunting bar for public figures claiming press defamed them
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Daily Quiz for October 4, 2018
He was first African-American admitted to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
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Little Rock at 50
Michael K. Honey, author of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther […]
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Daily Quiz for August 7, 2018
This humanitarian asked, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?”
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Daily Quiz for August 2, 2018
This proponent of African-American rights said, “There is no such force in the world as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.”
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Dear Mr. James Brown, I’m Sorry for What Happened During Your Visit to Vietnam
Haunted for decades by a racist incident in Vietnam during a James Brown show, a veteran pens a heartfelt confession to set the record straight.
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What Really Happened in Pinkville?
The Army lawyer who dissected the Calley trial testimony deconstructs the mythology that still […]