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On this day in 1958, Jeremiah Reeves, was executed via electric chair by the state of Alabama after police tortured him into giving a false confession as a 16-year-old child.

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. — Some customers at a local supermarket say a display meant to celebrate Black History Month is offensive and stereotypical. The display at the Kroger on Peachtree Parkway in Peachtree City features rapper Snoop Dogg and his wine brand, 19 Crimes. After receiving several...

Let's start out with 1 of 6 of the first physicists in America to graduate with a PhD from an American university, Dr. Edward Bouchet. "In 1876 Edward Alexander Bouchet made history by becoming the first African American PhD physicist, and the sixth person of any race to receive a PhD in...

https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2021-02-27/black-history-month-tiktok[/U] Across the TikTok app, Black creators are posting videos that confront America’s racist past. (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times; Getty Images) BY ARIT JOHNSTAFF WRITER FEB. 27, 2021 7:55 AM PT Put away your...

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Didn't know anything about this, me and the wife found it scrolling through Black history films. It was very powerful and moving. Really shows why his home is a national monument now. This was a very determined and brave black man. The Evers (2019) | SHOWTIME

The Evers (2019) | SHOWTIME streams on Hulu and Amazon Prime. Documentary did a great job capturing the intensity and danger FBA's had every single day in the struggle. This ish wasn't a game at all. The freedoms we all enjoy is because brehs like Medgar Evers put their life on the line for...

Josephine Baker to Be Honored With a Panthéon Burial Ms. Baker will be the first Black woman to be entombed in the Panthéon in Paris, a symbolic move amid racial tensions in France. Josephine Baker, who was born Freda Josephine McDonald in 1906 in St. Louis, in Paris in the...

============ Robert John Palmer - 2nd Great Grandfather of Dave Chapelle Robert J. Palmer's daughter was Rosina C. Palmer: Rosina was married to William David Chappelle, Sr. =========================== W.D. and Rosina Chappelle's son - William David Chapelle, Jr...

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DNA evidence links Muhammad Ali to heroic slave, family says When Cassius Clay joined the Nation of Islam in 1964 and changed his name to Muhammad Ali he had a straightforward explanation. “Why should I keep my white slavemaster’s name visible and my black ancestors invisible, unknown...

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We often hear about workers going on strike in the news. If the workforce want change then one way to influence it is by going on strike. Striking is a modern phenomenon, surely? Perhaps not – what if the Ancient Egyptians went on strike? Not all Ancient Egyptians were farmers. There were lots...

I was watching documentaries on the Tulsa pogrom and seeing elderly survivors of that event is just insane to me. And it got me thinking if there's anyone on the Coli that has a family history of being victims of racial violence. Also, how come I never heard of any cac that had a grandparent...