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The Kind of Revolution That Martin Luther King Jr. Envisioned

In 1968, four days before he was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the Rev. Dr.…

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When Black Characters Double-Deal to Make Ends Meet, It’s Never Enough

In three Broadway plays this season, a quest for financial stability can’t undo the trauma of the past or dismantle…

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Could Black Flight Change a Model of Integration?

American suburbs have long faced the issue of white families leaving as more residents of color move in. But in…

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Selling Houses While Black

About 6 percent of real estate agents and brokers in the United States are Black. Their white peers make almost…

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She Made History as a Black Basketball Star. Why Won’t Her College Name Its Arena for Her?

The Walter Sillers Coliseum, a 3,000-seat brick arena, has been the basketball mecca of Delta State University since it was…

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Federal Panel Rules South Carolina Congressional District Is Illegal Gerrymander

A three-judge federal panel unanimously ruled that South Carolina’s redrawn First Congressional District illegally removed 62 percent of the Black…

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A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth

The reputation of Vicente Lusitano, one of the earliest known composers of African descent active in Europe, was thwarted for…

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For Black South Africans, Apartheid Was a ‘House of Bondage’

In a newly reissued photo book from 1967, Ernest Cole surveys the ever-present atrocities of European oppression.

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White Men Charged in Attack on Black Teenagers at Pool in South Africa

Two youths who tried to use a pool at a resort on Christmas Day said they were told it was…

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Day 27: What Are Kids Saying About Kwanzaa?

“Kugichagulia!” saidParker Johnson, 5, of Pasadena, Calif., giggling as he pronounced the Swahili word three times in rapid succession. One…

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