Cemetery for Dallas' Black pioneers finally gets historical marker, landmark designation
Both the marker and the landmark designation are a long time coming, according to the local leaders who led the charge and ...
Jenny Laster, a Black role model who served as a mentor for many, dies at 84
Laster died Jan. 11 at the age of 86 after living her life as a role model for others, said family and friends in interviews with The Enquirer. A longtime Bond Hill resident, former English teacher ...
Long forgotten, Black servicemen who died in WWI are finally honored with a memorial in South Africa
More than 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no ...
Obituary: Denis Law, the first ‘King’ of Old Trafford
The flamboyant Denis Law was Manchester United's "Demon King" according to George Best, and a player idolised by Sir Alex ...
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New medicine & buried cadavers: University of Michigan Medical School’s ‘wild, woolly’ 175 years
ANN ARBOR, MI - Medicine in the late 1840s was the “ultimate free market,” said University of Michigan history and internal medicine professor Dr. Joel Howell. Fellow university historian Brian ...
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A Black student at UChicago says she experienced racial discrimination. Now her PhD is at risk.
Gianna Davis thought she had done everything right. For two years, the neuroscience PhD at the University of Chicago poured ...
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Prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader Jose ‘Cha Cha’ Jimenez dies at 76
Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and ...
Tuscaloosa trailblazer, first Black faculty member at Univ. of Ala. has died
Dr. Archie Wade was the University of Alabama’s first Black faculty member. He spent 30 years in the Department of ...
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Charles Person, Youngest of the Original Freedom Riders, Dies at 82
Then they would order food at the designated white and Black lunch counters. Their first test, in Fredericksburg, Va., was uneventful, save for a few ugly stares from white people in the depot.
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‘Believed in a better world’: Beverly Dove, People’s Park activist, dies at 77
She was known for her vibrant personality and commitment to social justice causes, including Palestinian liberation, environmental justice, animal rights and People’s Park activism. Diana Gwinn ...
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More Famous Songs by White People That Black Artists Sang Better
Since we’ve already listed some of the best songs that we mistakingly thought were sung by Black people, it’s time to list songs that were originally sung by White people, but Black people per ...