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Justice Department launches first federal review of 1921 Tulsa race massacre

By Reuters and Michelle Garcia The U.S. Justice Department has launched a review and evaluation of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said. The massacre started on May 31, 1921, when white attackers killed as many as 300 people, most of them Black, in Tulsa’s prosperous Greenwood neighborhood, which had gained the nickname […]

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5 HBCUs Leading the Charge in Creating Black Excellence

By Aziah Siid What do Martin Luther King Jr., Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and Vice President Kamala Harris have in common? They’re all graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The schools saw a surge in applications from high school seniors after the murder of George Floyd. And along with increasingly being seen by Black

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Wally Amos’ Famous Cookies Reached the World With Marvin Gaye’s Help

The world is slightly less sweet after the death of Black icon Wally Amos, who lived many different lives across his 88 years here. Following his youth in Tallahassee, the multi-talent moved to Harlem to live with his aunt, Della Bryant, while he was still a teen. Amos dropped out of high school but later

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Gail Lumet Buckley, Chronicler of Black Family History, Dies at 86

By Richard Sandomir Gail Lumet Buckley, who rather than follow her mother, Lena Horne, into show business, wrote two multigenerational books about their ambitious Black middle-class family, died on July 18 at her home in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 86. Her daughter Jenny Lumet, a screenwriter and film and television producer, said the cause

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