The African slave who taught America how to vaccinate itself from smallpox
In April 1721, a smallpox outbreak swept through Boston. This was the latest in a string of six epidemics that had, since, 1630, laid waste to the city. Cotton Mather,…
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In April 1721, a smallpox outbreak swept through Boston. This was the latest in a string of six epidemics that had, since, 1630, laid waste to the city. Cotton Mather,…
The decision that Celia Marcos made, the one that would ultimately steal years from her life, had been hard-wired after decades working as a nurse. On the ward that she…
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) said Sunday that rhetoric from the White House gives “permission” to people who are “prone to being racist.” Her comments on CNN’s “State of…
From classics like “Lady Sings the Blues” to the films of Haile Gerima, these films deserve homes on major streaming platforms. Normally, IndieWire’s Stream of the Day feature focuses on…
Building new lives in the ‘Black Belt’ In the early decades of the 20th century, millions of African-Americans began leaving the rural South for the urban North in a mass…
Reverend George Lee, co-founder of the Belzoni, Mississippi NAACP and the first African American to register to vote in Humphreys County since Reconstruction, was shot and killed in Belzoni on…
Tim Bray says he raised concerns about the treatment of whistleblowers, but in the end, the company’s failure to change led him to resign. A former engineer and vice-president at…
“Harriet” director Kasi Lemmons will write and direct Maaza Mengiste’s novel “The Shadow King” The story of the Ethiopian women soldiers who fought against Mussolini’s 1935 World War II invasion…
Many people in Madison knew Milele Chikasa Anana, who passed away on Wednesday at age 86, as the longtime publisher and editor of UMOJA magazine, the trailblazing publication that highlighted…
A new mural in Richmond, Virginia, featuring seven Black women, reminds residents, old and new, that Black people matter. Hull Street in Richmond, Virginia’s South Side neighborhood has seen gentrification…