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DeNeen Brown

DeNeen Brown

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Carter G. Woodson, ‘Father of Black History,’ said race must be taught - The Washington Post

Carter G. Woodson’s classic “The Mis-Education of the Negro” still resonates in today’s charged political debates over how Black history is taught in schools.
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Why Namibia invoked a century-old German genocide in international ...

After Germany defended Israel from charges of genocide, Namibia’s president cited a genocide that the Germans committed in Namibia when it was a German colony.
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Martin Luther King spoke openly on Arab-Israeli conflict in this se...

Martin Luther King Jr. offered his most unfiltered thoughts on the conflict in a 1959 sermon titled “A Walk Through the Holy Land,” following a Middle East trip.
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Army clears convictions of Buffalo Soldiers charged in 1917 Houston...

The soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, an all-Black member regiment, had been convicted of murder and mutiny in the Houston Riots of 1917.
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Majority-Black Wilmington, N.C., fell to White mob's coup 125 years...

The Nov. 10, 1898, Wilmington massacre overthrew the elected government in the majority-Black city, killed many Black residents and torched a Black-run newspaper.
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Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Hughes Van Ellis dies at 102 - The Was...

Hughes “Uncle Red” Van Ellis, one of the last three known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, died Monday at 102.
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Evicted for a U.S. naval base, Chagos Islands natives seek reparati...

A half-century after native inhabitants of the Chagos Islands were forced out to make room for a U.S. military base, a Chagossian leader came to D.C. seeking reparations.

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Descendants of Marcus Garvey press Biden for posthumous pardon

Descendants of the Black nationalist leader are pressing President Biden to issue a posthumous presidential pardon.
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She survived the Tulsa Race Massacre. Now, at 107, she’s become a q...

Viola Fletcher and her 100-year-old brother flew in August from Oklahoma to Ghana, where they were honored by the West African nation for their resilience and fearlessness.
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She survived the Tulsa Race Massacre. Now, at 107, she’s become a q...

Viola Fletcher and her 100-year-old brother flew in August from Oklahoma to Ghana, where they were honored by the West African nation for their resilience and fearlessness.
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Mississippi's history of lynchings haunts grieving mother - The Was...

A 21-year-old Black man was found hanging from a tree in Scott County, Miss., in 2018. Authorities ruled it was ruled a suicide, but his family says he was lynched.