Clifton R. Wharton Jr., Who Broke Racial Barriers, Is Dead at 98
He was the first African American to become president of a large white university, C.E.O. of a major corporation and deputy ...
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These Black Americans Were Killed for Exercising Their Political Right to Vote
In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to fight for equality and freedom ...
People died getting voting rights for Black men and women. It’s why you need to vote | Opinion
They used poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses and just plain old intimidation to deny African American men the ...
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Hundreds gather at Fort Monroe to honor enslaved African people who died crossing the Atlantic
The event, hosted by The Sankofa Projects, was the 13th Annual International Day of Remembrance — a spiritual ceremony honoring African men ... who died at sea and the African Americans who ...
South African dissident writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach dies at 85
South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach, a staunch opponent of the former white-minority government’s apartheid ...
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Freddie Stowers: An American hero who died fighting for France in World War One
Stowers was an African-American and ... Cpl Stowers continued to lead his men in an attack that ultimately succeeded in capturing Hill 188. He died on the battlefield, an American soldier in ...