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News
Could Black Flight Change a Model of Integration?
American suburbs have long faced the issue of white families leaving as more residents of color move in. But in…
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News
Selling Houses While Black
About 6 percent of real estate agents and brokers in the United States are Black. Their white peers make almost…
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She Made History as a Black Basketball Star. Why Won’t Her College Name Its Arena for Her?
The Walter Sillers Coliseum, a 3,000-seat brick arena, has been the basketball mecca of Delta State University since it was…
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World
Federal Panel Rules South Carolina Congressional District Is Illegal Gerrymander
A three-judge federal panel unanimously ruled that South Carolina’s redrawn First Congressional District illegally removed 62 percent of the Black…
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Arts
A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth
The reputation of Vicente Lusitano, one of the earliest known composers of African descent active in Europe, was thwarted for…
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World
For Black South Africans, Apartheid Was a ‘House of Bondage’
In a newly reissued photo book from 1967, Ernest Cole surveys the ever-present atrocities of European oppression.
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World
White Men Charged in Attack on Black Teenagers at Pool in South Africa
Two youths who tried to use a pool at a resort on Christmas Day said they were told it was…
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World
Day 27: What Are Kids Saying About Kwanzaa?
“Kugichagulia!” saidParker Johnson, 5, of Pasadena, Calif., giggling as he pronounced the Swahili word three times in rapid succession. One…
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News
Charlene Mitchell, 92, Dies; First Black Woman to Run for President
She was the Communist Party candidate in 1968 and later led the campaign to free Angela Davis. But she eventually…
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News
Does the Meaning of a Song Change Depending on Who Wrote It?
I first heard the Christmas spiritual “Sweet Little Jesus Boy” when I was a small child. It was playing in…