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Black History

Juneteenth offers chance for preserving, not repeating history

Thursday, June 19, 2025

By Alex Bass

James Brown recalls how Juneteenth never was emphasized during his formative years. Frankly, he thinks the holiday is treated as an afterthought. “They take your self-worth away from you,” said Brown, who was christened at St. Joseph AME Church in the 1940s when it was in the Hayti Heritage Center. “And then, they come back and say,

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AfroPoP season 17 sets new bar for drama and docs

Saturday, June 14, 2025

By Staff Reports

NEW YORK — Season 17 of “AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange,” the Peabody Award-winning series by Black Public Media and WORLD, kicked off June 9 with an impressive lineup of documentary and narrative films. The season transports viewers around the globe and to places past, present and future with award-winning films that stir the

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‘Six Triple Eight’ member dies at 101

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

By The Afro

"Scandal" actress Kerry Washington with Anna Mae Robertson. Anna Mae Robertson, one of the last known surviving members of the famed 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, died May 30. She was 101. Robertson, and all the 855 members of the “Six Triple Eight,” as the unit is called, are inspiring a new generation of Americans now that

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Triangle Juneteenth Events

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

By Compiled by staff

KNIGHTDALE * June 14, 4-9 p.m. – African American Festival, Knightdale Station Park, 809 N. 1st Avenue. GARNER * June 21, 11 a.m. – Garner Juneteenth Celebration, Garner Performing Arts Center, 742 W. Garner Road. RALEIGH * June 13, 7-8 p.m. – After Emancipation: North Carolina Education, Past, Present, and Future, City of Raleigh

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Harvard reaches historic settlement over slave photographs

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

By Stacy Brown, NNPA

Harvard University will relinquish ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people as part of a historic legal settlement announced May 28 by nationally renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump. The agreement resolves a 2019 lawsuit filed by Tamara Lanier, the great-great-great-granddaughter of an enslaved man known as “Papa

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Malcolm X still scares America

Sunday, May 25, 2025

By Quintessa Williams, Word In Black

When Jesse Hagopian first encountered Malcolm X, it wasn’t in a textbook or classroom lecture. It was through Spike Lee’s iconic 1992 film. “I realized I needed to learn more,” Hagopian, educator and director of the Teaching for Black Lives campaign at the Zinn Education Project, tells Word In Black. “Reading his

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Raleigh post office officially renamed after WWII veteran

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

By Sharryse Piggott , WUNC

RALEIGH – State and local officials gathered last week in Raleigh to celebrate the renaming of a local post office after a civil rights leader, and a member of the only all-Black female World War II unit. Millie Dunn Veasey was a staff sergeant with the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion — nicknamed the Six Triple Eight. They deployed to

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Mae Reeves used showstopping hats to fuel voter engagement

Thursday, May 8, 2025

By Renee' S. Anderson, The Conversation

Mae Reeves, pictured in first row on right, poses with models wearing her designs. Lula “Mae” Reeves, one of the first Black women in Philly to own her own business, created one-of-a-kind and custom hats for celebrities, socialites, professionals and churchgoing women in downtown Philadelphia for over 50 years. She made hats for everyday

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