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Quote of the Day: Malcolm X on Ghettos
Read more quotes from Malcolm X here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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Was a Black Man on the Titanic?
Editor’s note: This article was originally published Dec. 2, 2013. For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an…
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Quote of the Day: Howard Thurman on Family
Read how the quote is referenced here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief ofThe Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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Quote of the Day: Shirley Chisholm on Gender
Read how the quote is referenced here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief ofThe Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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Quote of the Day: Bayard Rustin on Fear
Read the quote and more about Bayard Rustin here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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Quote of the Day: Billie Holiday on Fighting
Read the full quote and other quotes from Billie Holiday here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us…
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Quote of the Day: Howard Thurman on Family
Read how the quote is referenced here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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Quote of the Day: Yvonne Brathwaite Burke on Politics
Read more about Yvonne Brathwaite Burke’s decision to go into politics here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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The Many Rivers We Have Crossed
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, a six-part, six-hour television event, draws to a close at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday on PBS. When we began our journey on Oct. 22, we set a goal of presenting the 500-year history of the African-American people since the black Spanish conquistador Juan Garrido accompanied Ponce de León…
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Quote of the Day: August Wilson on Freedom
Read the quote—by Memphis in the play Two Trains Running—in its full context here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us…
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