Johnson had been jailed in 1996 for a non-violent drug charge and served 22 years in prison before being released. Her case gained national attention when Kim Kardashian West lobbied on her behalf, ...
Communities in Oregon are grieving the loss of local trailblazer Avel Gordly. Gordly, who was widely recognized for becoming ...
Whitney Bronson is the Public Relations Specialist for the Connecticut Sun and has been with the Sun for almost one year. She is from Ohio and went to Hampton University where she earned a Bachelor of ...
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. One of those dreamers was Harriet Tubman. The Mansfield/Richland County Public ...
The Underground Railroad was a secret network of abolitionists who helped an estimated 100,000 people escape the confines of slavery. Composed of farms, homes, stores and schoolhouses, it provided a ...
Chief On March 6, 1857, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney oversaw a 7-2 vote against enslaved spouses Dred Scott and Harriet Scott, who ...
African American Christians reflect on Rebecca Protten, Vernon Johns and other thinkers who influenced their faith.
So when Hubbell was informed that the one-woman performance she’d been engaged to perform must exclude any Black characters, she pushed back. Was the library really telling her, she asked, that as a ...
Dubbed the “baddest bitch in history” by Comedy Central, Bowser became known as one of the Union’s most daring Civil War spies. Literate and underestimated, Bowser worked as an undercover agent from ...
If King Trump has his way, Black History Month will be diluted into some form of ‘Blank His-story.’ Not only is the Trumpster at the vanguard of a sustained movement […] ...
After asking Philly artists to submit designs for a Harriet Tubman statue, the city is now tapping local writers to craft an inscription for the monument that will soon be placed outside City Hall.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Your words could soon share space with a legend. The City of Philadelphia wants local residents to submit original and meaningful quotes for the Harriet Tubman statue that will ...
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