by October Gallery
Some Historians have found quotes from Peterson in news reports of the time. “I was working for Mr. T. L. Kearny on the morning of the day of election, and…
One the evening of January 4, 1998, in Shreveport, Louisiana, a group of neighborhood friends came up with an idea—they would order a pizza. The deliveryman, 23-year-old Jarvis Griffin, arrived…
One GREENSBORO, N.C. (July 6, 2018) – Siobahn Day has worked for three years to make history, not only for herself but for North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.…
Looking down through the clear plastic roof of a model of Charleston’s International African American Museum, you can see the exhibit spaces marked out. Construction on the real museum could…
On this day (July 9) in 1868, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. The landmark addition provides for “equal protection of the laws,” particularly for Black Americans. As…
Purturbed that black history is officially celebrated just one month out of the year, Spotity earlier this year launched “Black History Is Happening Now,” a content campaign—with employment and development…
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Kenrya Rankin, Colorlines While #BlackGirlMagic is definitely a thing, Therese Patricia Okoumou’s brave July 4 immigration protest at the Statue of Liberty forced Black women to remind…
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” Famed black abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass posed this question before a large, mostly white crowd in Rochester, New…
Jaki Shelton Green, an instructor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, was named the ninth poet laureate of the state of North Carolina.…
Some time ago, the writer Nikki Giovanni offered me guidance on writing about the life of a public person. Most of her advice I understood and dutifully jotted into a…