Read how the quote is referenced in Barbara Jordan’s obituary here.
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Read the full quote and other quotes from Billie Holiday here.
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Read more about Yvonne Brathwaite Burke’s decision to go into politics here.
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, a six-part, six-hour television event, draws to a close at 8 p.m. ET…
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Read the quote—by Memphis in the play Two Trains Running—in its full context here.
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This fall, my colleagues and I completed work on Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s documentary series The African Americans:…
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Between 1939 and 1946, Fatima Massaquoi penned one of the earliest known autobiographies by an African woman. But…