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First Black Woman Pilot Bessie Coleman to be Honored on US Quarter in 2023
Coleman and four other women will be recognized on US quarters
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Legendary Poet Maya Angelou Becomes the First Black Woman To Be Featured On U.S. Quarter
It's the first in a series of coins designed to celebrate the accomplishment of American women.
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Civil Rights Champion Claudette Colvin Sees Her Juvenile Record Expunged 66 Years After Arrest Over Bus Seat
"The hardship and intimidation that took place in those years and the reason I took a stand to defy the segregated law," Covin says as record is cleared.
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Michael Harriot Ruins Everything
It's been a wild ride. Stephen A. Crockett Jr. is leaving The Root—and Michael Harriot even wrote a better goodbye letter.
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Rosa Parks Got the Glory. Claudette Colvin Just Wants Her Record Expunged
Colvin was 15 when she refused to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery, Ala. bus in 1955, nine months before Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.
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The Twenty-Third Psalm
Some stuff about why 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' is a perfect anthem for Black America.