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Beyonce' accepts the Innovator Award at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Monday, April 1, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Photo credit: Chris Pizzello, The Associated Press
Arts & culture

Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ lifts covers off of little-known Black history

  • April 12, 2024
  • By Wayne Dawkins
  • NABJ Black News & Views
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Descendants of Black scientist and astronomer Benjamin Banneker: Rachel Jamision Webster, rear left, author of "Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of An American Family," with cousins and fellow descendants Robert Lett, Edie Lee Harris, and Gwen Marable, who collaborated with Webster on the book. Photo credit: Rachel Jamison Webster
Arts & culture

FIRST PERSON: Benjamin Banneker, my ancestor and a Black astronomer, predicted the 1789 eclipse

  • April 7, 2024
  • By Rachel Jamison Webster
  • Special to NABJ Black News & Views
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Little Rock Nine member Carlotta Walls LaNier speaks during the Presidential Leadership Scholars graduation on Thursday, July 14, 2016, at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Photo credit:Gareth Patterson, The Associated Press
Social Justice

Carlotta Walls LaNier of the Little Rock Nine reflects on attacks on Black history in the classroom

  • August 31, 2023
  • By Elaine Tassy
  • CPR News
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Historian Eric K. Washington, left, chats with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, in the baseball cap, in front of Colored School No. 4 in the city's Chelsea neighborhood just after the building was granted landmark status. Photo credit: Michael Appleton, NYC Mayoral Photography Office
Arts & culture

Years-long campaign wins landmark status for historic Black NYC school that survived anti-Black riots

  • June 21, 2023
  • By E.R. Shipp
  • NABJ Black News & Views
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Opal Lee, the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," talks as she opens the front door of her home on Thursday, July 1, 2021, in Fort Worth, Texas. Opal Lee's dream of seeing Juneteenth become a federal holiday was finally realized two years ago, but the energetic woman who spent years rallying people to join her push for the day commemorating the end of slavery is hardly letting up on a lifetime of work teaching and helping others. Photo credit: LM Otero
National

Opal Lee, ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth,’ and ‘Just Mercy’ author Bryan Stevenson discuss national museum, legacy of slavery

  • June 19, 2023
  • By Sarah Bahari
  • Texas Metro News, The Dallas Morning News
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Late Howard University librarian Dorothy B. Porter, probably at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Photo credit: Library of Congress
Arts & culture

OPINION: Let’s address the epidemic of erasing Black existence

  • April 14, 2023
  • By Wayne Dawkins
  • NABJ Black News & Views
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