Category Archives: Black History

An Insightful Book Reveals Ernest Cole’s Clear-Eyed Photos of Civil Rights America | Colossal

January 22, 2024 Books Photography Social Issues Grace Ebert All images from ‘Ernest Cole: The True America,’ Aperture (2023), © 2023 Ernest Cole Family Trust, ‘The True America’ compiles a trove of the influential photographer’s rarely-seen images depicting the Civil … Continue reading

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Jermaine Fowler | Public Historian (@thehumanityarchive) | Uncle Nearest

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In 1963, the famous photographer Richard Avedon took a picture of a man named William Casby.

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Dorothy Counts; the teenager who challenged the segregation, 1957!

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AFRICAN AND BLACK HISTORY (@africanarchives) | Matthew A Henson

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BBC Radio 4 – A Jamaican Poet in Dublin

Jason Allen-Paisant goes to Ireland on the trail of Jamaican poet Ferdinand Levy. In 1941, while a medical student in Dublin, Jamaican poet Ferdinand Levy published his only poetry collection, Flashes from the Dark. Positively reviewed at the time, the … Continue reading

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The First Black Person In British History With A Name And A Portrait

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Debunking Historical Myths: Was The British Mainland Slave-Free?

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The last American slave ship docked illegally in Mobile, Alabama in 1860, carrying about 160 West African captives. Among them was Cudjo Lewis…

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Smalls was born into enslavement in Beaufort, South Carolina in 1839…

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