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Long before fights over DEI, a judge told Tennessee State University to lose its Black identity
By Emily Siner In the early 1980s, Tennessee State University was at a turning point. For decades, it had been treated like a second-class university. The state had created the school in the early 1900s as part of the architecture of segregation: The federal government was forcing Tennessee to provide public higher education for Black
Newly released photos show Rosa Parks at the Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965
By The Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Seven decades after Rosa Parks was thrust indelibly into American history for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, new photos of the Civil Rights Movement icon have been made public for the first time, and they illustrate aspects of her legacy that are often overlooked. The photos
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Knoxville College works toward revival as historic HBCU for Black education
Established in 1875, Knoxville College is one of Tennessee’s oldest historically Black colleges and universities and remains a vital institution for higher education among African Americans in East Tennessee. Founded by the United Presbyterian Church of North America to serve freed men and women, it opened as a normal school for training teachers before becoming
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HBCU Digital Library Trust preserves History
Launched in 2023, the HBCU Digital Library Trust is on a mission to reach the next generation of students, researchers, and information seekers through one digital platform with materials showcasing the history of Black academia in the United States post-emancipation. Funded by the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, the work of the HBCU Digital Library Trust
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A guide to what the Juneteenth holiday is and how to celebrate it
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The resulting Juneteenth holiday — it’s name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated
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Thousands of Historic HBCU Photos Go Digital Through Getty Images and Ancestry Collaboration
Digitalization has changed the world in a blink of eye. Our ancestors could never have dreamed that their stories would matter one day. Maybe they lacked resources to preserve their history. Preserving the legacies that history holds wasn’t easy task for them. Today, things are different, thanks to collaboration of Getty Images and Ancestry. Recently, Getty Images
Green Book celebrated for safety of African American travelers
By Russ McQuaid When Leon Bates’ grandfather would travel Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Kentucky as an International Representative of the United Auto Workers union in the forties, fifties and sixties, he always carried extra white shirts so he could look fresh coming off the road and a satchel with a pair of important books
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Central Jersey’s only African American history museum hopes to expand
Central Jersey’s only musem dedicated to African American history is hoping to expand. The Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM) is applying for funding from the state’s Green Acres Program to buy property on Hollow Road on Sourland Mountain. The purchase will expand the nonprofit museum’s African American history campus and and allow for the preservation
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