Saturday, February 18, 2017

Special Edition: Black History Month

The daily dose

#1 Flashback

New York's Buried African-American History

African-Americans' historic role in building New York City is finally coming to light, if slowly.

#2 Flashback

When Black Power Went Global

In 1972, 10,000 African-Americans marched through Washington, D.C., to fight apartheid, colonial…

#3 Flashback

Pulling Up to the Bumper, Baby

Nothing captures the pre-AIDS, post-disco NYC of the late '70s and early '80s better than Grace …

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#4 Flashback

When the Soviet Union Tried to Woo Black America

In the 1920s and '30s, the Soviet Union made a big push to turn African-Americans from the party of Lincoln to the party of Lenin.

#5 Flashback

The Badass Wife of W.E.B. Du Bois

Shirley Graham Du Bois was a political activist and artist at the center of Black radicalism. Time to know her name.

#6 Flashback

When the U.S. Promised Former Slaves 40 Acres and a Mule

Much was promised to the freedmen, but little arrived.

#7 Flashback

Slavery - As Told by Slaves

Historians are using slave narratives from the Depression-era Works Progress Administration to tell a devastating story.

#8 Flashback

The First Black Fighter Pilot

He fled racial abuse in America, fought for his native land in France and still got ignored by posterity.

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Michael Tubbs: Redefining the Stocktons of the World

This 25-year-old mayor hopeful is headed home to save this blue-collar town.

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