Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges to speak in Long Beach on Wednesday
Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal marshals.
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Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges to speak in Long Beach on Wednesday
Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she walked into a grade school in Louisiana surrounded by federal marshals, is scheduled to speak Wednesday, March 19 at the Carpenter Center at Cal ...
Coco Gauff’s tennis background, from her grandmother to Pompey Park, travels with her
Gauff is the highest-paid female athlete in the world, but still finds the South Florida park where she grew up a place to ...
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Living history: nonprofit honors Black, brown women trailblazers
A nonprofit puts on a living museum to honor Black and brown women in history in Green Bay Thursday. NBC 26 learned more ...
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Rhode Island eighth graders trek south to learn about the Civil Rights Movement
Each winter, eighth grade students at the Gordon School take a trip to Alabama and Georgia to visit historic sites associated ...
CBC: Trump’s Department of Education order part of ‘rampage’ against civil institutions
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) on Thursday strongly condemned President Trump’s executive order to dismantle the ...
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A Black educator was hired to reform a school that held a mock slave auction. It was a racist nightmare, she says
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
In Better Spirits
In 2017, the recognition came. Columbia Room won Best American Cocktail Bar at the Spirited Awards—the Oscars of ...
UW professor battles a ‘direct, frontal assault’ on Black history
When Quintard Taylor launched BlackPast in 2007, he didn’t realize attacks on history would make the site as necessary as it ...