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by E.R. Shipp onSeptember 8, 2010
With even Glenn Beck staking a claim, visions of what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for can be wildly divergent.
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by David Swerdlick onAugust 25, 2010
King supported labor unions and affirmative action -- and he would have voted for Barack Obama.
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by Washington Post onAugust 3, 2010
Archeologists from Temple University discover a 200-year-old city once home to free blacks and escaped slaves beneath a hill in New Jersey.
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June 21, 2010
The TV talking head realizes that blacks have been erased from American history. Welcome to our world.
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by Afi-Odelia Scruggs onMay 25, 2010
There’s a reason why Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week in 1928.
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March 19, 2010
Look beyond the symbolism of the historic freedom ship's return to Cuba
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by Dayo Olopade onMarch 5, 2010
In Part 1 of our Women’s History Month series on leadership, a look at the roots of female empowerment.
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March 1, 2010
A mother gathers the experts to school her biracial son on his heritage
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February 21, 2010
Not forgotten by the Tweeple on the anniversary of his death 45 years ago.
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February 19, 2010
As happy as we are for the nation to get its yearly reminder that black people do exist in the context of American history, there’s a growing list of characters that has us harking back to Zora Neale Hurston’s famous words: “All my skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.” Indeed, while we love our own, we sure do dream of erasing a few of them from the history books. Some are politicos, others are pop culture figures, but they all share one common attribute: They’re embarrassing.
