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He escaped slavery to fight for the Union — and then he was captured
Hubbard Pryor’s harrowing journeys to freedom during and after the Civil War still resonate in Georgia today. Pryor had already survived captivity once.
Movin’ on Up: How a TV theme song motivates black America
How a three-word phrase from a TV theme song became a powerful mantra for African Americans.
Million Man March: A day of atonement
1995 Million Man March
At Tuskegee, U.S. experimented on Black men with syphilis for 40 years
Officially called the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” the federal government oversaw an experiment in which about 400 African-American men in the Ala...
Black double-consciousness: Du Bois’ century-plus concept still valid
A Black History Month look at "double-consciousness," a black American struggle that W.E.B. Du Bois first wrote about in 1897 that remains relevant.
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How ‘The New Negro’ started a renaissance, and not just in Harlem
"The New Negro," the 1925 anthology of black writers edited by Alain Locke, helped usher in one of the most significant periods of black expression and creativity.
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In decades after Civil War, promise of West lured Black homesteaders
BHM Black Homesteaders and how they settled the west
