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Quote of the Day: Johnnetta B. Cole on Soul
You can find this quote from the essay “Culture: Negro, Black and Nigger,” in The Black Scholar (1970), and additional quotes by Johnnetta B. Cole, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read more about, and watch video of, Cole here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins…
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Quote of the Day: Dick Gregory on the N-Word
Read this quote from The Shadow That Scares Me (1968), and additional quotes by Dick Gregory, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. 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.…
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Was John Brown’s 1st Victim Black?
Editor’s note: 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 homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 60:…
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Quote of the Day: Malcolm X on Anger
Read this quote from his speech at the Harlem rally for Fannie Lou Hamer (1964), and additional quotes by Malcolm X, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. 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…
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Quote of the Day: Harriet Ann Jacobs on Slavery
Read this quote and additional quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. 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: Bruce M. Wright on Voting
Read about the judge’s life 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: Diana Ross on the Future
Read more quotes from Diana Ross 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: Henry Parks on Pursuing Your Dreams
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.
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Image Recalls Christianity’s Arrival in Ethiopia
This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. This remarkable visual account of the bringing of Ethiopia into the…
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Was the Lone Ranger Black?
Editor’s note: 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 homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 59:…