African Americans
The truth about reparations: They’re a condemnation of U.S. capitalism
June 27, 2019Slavery built U.S. capitalism. It still shapes Black economic success today.
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Comprehensive retrospective of African-American artist Charles White at LACMA
June 6, 2019White said in 1940, "Paint is the only weapon I have with which to fight what I resent."
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Fighting Hitler and Jim Crow: The forgotten Black soldiers of D-Day
June 6, 2019After fighting fascism in Europe, many African-American troops were met with discrimination yet again at home.
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Black women display leadership during presidential forum attack
June 4, 2019The incident at the MoveOn forum showed in the clearest terms possible the leading role women of color are playing.
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Zenobia Thompson, St. Louis community leader, recognized for health care activism
April 29, 2019Thompson, who was a leader in the fight to save an African-American hospital in the 1970s, remarked, “I always say that nursing is my passion, but activism is my calling."
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