Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law.
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While many in the civil rights movement community this summer are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Freedom…
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This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in…
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Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment…
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We have traced our roots back to our great-great-great-great-grandfather Lar Henry Green (aka Henry G). According to…
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Editor's note: On the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Shelby County, Ala. v. Holder, which…
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Those familiar with Freedom Summer know that it was pivotal in putting pressure on the segregated Deep South and…
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This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in…
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In 1961, 19-year-old Howard University student Hank Thomas embarked on a journey that would change interstate travel…
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A backhoe gouged a neat T-shaped scar into a grassy lot in downtown Hampton, Va., revealing … dirt. You could see…
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July marks the 50th anniversary of perhaps the most far-reaching emancipatory reform in American history—passage of…
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Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment…
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Every year I ask my Twitter friends, "How are y’all celebrating Juneteenth?" Usually I get just a handful of…
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This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in…
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Five years ago I stood in a slave castle on Senegal’s Gorée Island at the infamous Door of No Return. Our guide told…
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Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment…
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Last summer, when the Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, the decision…
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How can one find the place where one’s ancestors originated when the names of locations change over time?
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Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were murdered on June 12, 1994, in Brown Simpson’s Los Angeles home.…
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