A part of African American history has been lost. The Carswell Grove Baptist Church, in rural Jenkins County, Ga., burned to the ground this
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Thanks to TEDx GeorgiaTech 2014 for having me speak at the conference about remembering racial violence and how some communities are beginning to mark
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Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research and the author of numerous important
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President Obama discussing the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case at a press briefing today: "When you think about why in the African-American community, at least,
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Today is the birthday of James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), the first black head of the NAACP, diplomat, political activist, teacher, novelist, poet, historian, editor,
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