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Designer Turns Untold Black Stories Into Wearable Art
Art tells all the stories that the books never could.
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Durham, Washington, D.C., Become Latest Cities to Call for Reparations for Black Residents
Despite its long history as part of abolitionist discourse, reparations for African Americans have, for many years, been considered a “fringe” idea in mainstream politics. But in 2020, more places across the country are considering what reparations would look like on the local, state and federal level, as the need to redress hundreds of years…
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Duke University to Rename Iconic Building After One of the 1st Black Women to Attend the School
Duke University has announced it will rename one of its west campus buildings after one of the first Black women to become an undergraduate at the university. According to WTVD, the university’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Saturday to change the name of the Sociology-Psychology Building to the Reuben-Cooke Building, after Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke. Reuben-Cooke…
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#JusticeForDre: NCCU Students Walk Out of Classes, Demand Answers Over Classmate's Death at Hands of Security Guard
Students at North Carolina Central University walked out of classes on Monday in protest of their classmate Deandre Ballard’s death under questionable circumstances two weeks ago. Ballard, a senior at the HBCU, was shot and killed by a black security guard at his off-campus apartment complex on Sept. 17. As multiple outlets have reported, the…
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Family and Friends of NCCU Student Shot and Killed by Security Guard Question Guard’s Story: ‘There Is No Way’
An investigation is ongoing and no charges have been filed in the case of a North Carolina Central University student who was shot and killed by a security guard at an off-campus apartment complex in Durham, N.C., last week. Details are still coming out about the circumstances of 23-year-old DeAndre Marquise Ballard’s death on Sept.…
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The Top Cities People Move to Differ Drastically When You Look at Race
A series of new charts compiled by the Washington Post looks at where Americans moved to between 2012 and 2016. At first blush, the numbers, which were pulled from the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent statistics, look fairly predictable—New York City, the largest metropolitan area in the United States, drew in the most newcomers, while…
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North Carolina Names Highway for Groundbreaking Black Historian and Civil Rights Advocate
A stretch of Interstate 85 in Durham, N.C., has been named for the trailblazing black historian John H. Franklin, who directly confronted America’s racist history and helped shaped the discourse around America’s legacy of slavery. The stretch of road was dedicated to the influential scholar Monday afternoon at the Hayti Heritage Center. As the Raleigh…
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Autopsy Reveals That Black Motorist Was Shot in the Back by NC Trooper
Two days after family members of Willard Scott Jr. gathered in Durham County, N.C., to demand answers in the shooting death of their loved one, an autopsy report has been released showing that the motorist was shot in the back by a North Carolina highway patrolman. Scott, 31, was shot and killed Feb. 12 after…