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Explore Virginia Through A Black Perspective
Virginia has a major reputation as a history hub, but as people of color know, society’s definition of history doesn’t always acknowledge our perspectives and our stories. So it might be a surprise to learn that the state that was once the seat of the Confederacy is also home to the longest Black experience in…
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Living With History: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington Heir Saw the Burden and Beauty of His Ancestors’ Legacies
Editor’s note: For Black History Month, The Root is speaking to the relatives of our most cherished African-American heroes in a series called Living With History. Today we feature Kenneth B. Morris Jr., a descendant of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and educator Booker T. Washington, and spoke to him about how the family are keeping their…
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Everything I Know About Black History I Learned in the Middle Room
In 1952 my grandfather built a house for his wife and six children in a small South Carolina town. The house had four bedrooms, one bathroom, a dining room and a living room you could enter only if you were dressed in your Sunday best or entertaining company or if somebody had died. After my…
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Tenn. Principal Wasn’t Having It After Someone Criticized Student Who Was Slain
Don’t come for Principal Alisha Coleman-Kiner’s students. Ever. Coleman-Kiner, the principal of Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, Tenn., made her feelings quite clear in sharing an email she received that questioned the school’s handling of the death of senior Myneisha Johnson, who was shot and killed a week before she would have graduated.…