Tag: Black History

How Learning Black History Can Create Understanding And Empathy Needed To Bridge Racial, Political Divides

NewsOne Featured Video Source: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images / Getty On the day of the Super Bowl, Matt Gaetz, a Republican member of Congress from Florida, publicly announced that he would not watch one of the most popular sporting events in America. The reason for his boycott? “They’re desecrating America’s national […]

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‘Bloody Sunday’: Commemorating The Selma To Montgomery Marches From 59 Years Ago

NewsOne Featured Video Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King led a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery; among those pictured are, front-row, politician and civil rights activist John Lewis (1940 – 2020), Reverend Ralph Abernathy (1926 – 1990), Ruth Harris Bunche (1906 – 1988), Nobel […]

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NC School Doors ‘Decorated’ With ‘Colored’ And ‘White’ Entrances For Black History Month

NewsOne Featured Video Source: screenshot A North Carolina high school has been reprimanded by its school district for having a pair of doors inside the building “decorated” as being “colored” and “white” entrances last week in a Black History Month commemoration gone wrong. A photo of the doors at Charlotte West High School shows a […]

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Happy Valentine’s Day! Read MLK’s Love Letter To Coretta Scott King

NewsOne Featured Video UPDATED: 12:30 p.m. ET, Feb. 14, 2024 We all know Martin Luther King Jr. was quite the speaker but, apparently, he was also something of a poet. On this Valentine’s Day, after recently having seen Coretta Scott King‘s name used in vain, join NewsOne in taking a look back in time at […]

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‘Lift Every Voice And Sing’: The True Story Of The Black National Anthem

NewsOne Featured Video From left to right: D.C. Del. Walter Fauntroy, singer Melba Moore, Dr. Roland Scott of the National Association for Sickle Cell Disease and Dr. Dorothy Height of the National Council of Negro Woman celebrate the 90th anniversary of the song, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” in 1990. | Source: Bettmann / Getty […]

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The Creative Ways Black People Have Historically Used Mapping To Document Their Stories

NewsOne Featured Video Image depicts an African American man, a map of Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the border of Pennsylvania, and a ‘Directions’ key. The text at the bottom reads: “I’se da innocent cause ob all dis war trubble.” | Source: The New York Historical Society / Getty When historian Carter Woodson created “Negro History […]

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Cathy Hughes Tells Inc. Magazine Her Mission With Urban ONE: ‘I’m In The Black People Business’

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Carol Lee Rose / Getty Here at the Urban ONE / REACH Media family, we take serious pride in our leadership, particularly when it comes to our founder and chairwoman Cathy Hughes. In addition to making sure the African American community has a nationwide media outlet that can always be trusted […]

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Lanny Smoot Makes Black History As First ‘Disney Imagineer’ Inducted Into Inventors Hall Of Fame

NewsOne Featured Video Source: VCG / Getty Disney research fellow and imagineer Lanny Smoot was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The esteemed honor spotlights his important contributions to the global brand’s most beloved attractions. The Disney Parks Blog mentions that Smoot is the first Disney Imagineer to receive the prestigious honor and […]

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Missouri School Board Reverses Decision To End Black History Classes, But With Stipulations

NewsOne Featured Video Source: 4nadia / Getty A Republican-led school board in Missouri has reversed a decision to drop Black History courses in their predominantly white district, but only if certain criteria are met.  According to AP, the Francis Howell School District will allow students to continue to take elective Black History courses, only if […]

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Civil War: Nikki Haley Is The Latest Republican To Shamelessly Whitewash Black History

NewsOne Featured Video 2024 Republican presidential hopeful and former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at the New Hampshire Republican Party’s First in the Nation Leadership Summit in Nashua, New Hampshire, on October 13, 2023. | Source: JOSEPH PREZIOSO / Getty Nikki Haley found herself trending on social media for all the wrong reasons after […]

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A Timeline Of Giving: Black Philanthropists’ Long History Of Donations In Education

NewsOne Featured Video UPDATED: 9:30 a.m. ET, Nov. 28, 2023 Originally published Feb. 4, 2020 Considering all the barriers that have been put into place over time to prevent Black people from attaining an education, it was no wonder why such a philanthropic effort has been made to donate money to assist with schooling. Statistics […]

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Black Teachers In Oklahoma Teach Black History Through Private Program Amid State’s Whitewashing Law

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Dima Berlin / Getty More and more, we’re seeing leaders and educators in the Black community take it upon themselves to teach the non-whitewashed Black history that white conservative state lawmakers and education officials have launched a propaganda-reliant war against. They call it “woke.” They call it critical race theory regardless […]

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We Have A Moral And Divine Right To Learn Black History: That’s Why I Asked Churches To Teach It

NewsOne Featured Video Source: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images / Getty America is yet again at a crossroads. Faith in Florida, a multicultural coalition of faith communities, is among those fighting against the erasure and devaluation of Black communities. White supremacists have always sought to prevent people of African descent from learning […]

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Las Vegas Raiders Make History As First NFL Team With A Black President, Head Coach And GM

NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Source: Steve Marcus / Getty From Oakland to Los Angeles, then back to Oakland, and now in Las Vegas, the Raiders have always been a squad that knows how to wear black well. In 2023, the uniform color is now a testament to the team’s overall leadership as they recently became […]

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Black Churches In Florida Are Teaching Non-Whitewashed Black History Since The State Won’t

NewsOne Featured Video Source: David McNew / Getty Ask any elderly Black person, and any Black historian in general, and likely they’ll tell you what a pivotal role the Black church played during the civil rights movement of the ’50s and ’60s. It was where protests were planned, where leaders congregated, where the community came […]

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How Some Americans Distort The Racist History Of The U.S. Into An Uplifting – And Sanitized – Moral Lesson

NewsOne Featured Video An engraving shows the arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale, in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. | Source: Hulton Archive / Getty Of all the debate over teaching U.S. slavery, it is one sentence of Florida’s revised academic standards that has provoked particular ire: “Instruction […]

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Never Forget: Anti-Apartheid Icon Steve Biko Was Murdered By South African Police On This Day In 1977

NewsOne Featured Video This 1977 photo shows Black Consciousness Movement founder Steve Biko. | Source: – / Getty UPDATED: 10:45 a.m. ET, Sept. 12, 2023 Originally published: Jan. 28, 2013 Legendary anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died on Sept. 12, 1977, as a political prisoner who was murdered by the police in South Africa because he […]

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10 Books On Black History That Should Be Taught In Schools Right Now

NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Source: Kali9 / Getty The classroom is a space where students should have the opportunity to learn about everything—both the good and the ugly, as well as the more challenging parts of history. Yet, there is a growing trend of attempting to erase Black history. In recent years, this disconcerting trend […]

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10 Books On Black History That Should Be Taught In Schools Right Now

NewsOne Featured Video CLOSE Source: Kali9 / Getty The classroom is a space where students should have the opportunity to learn about everything—both the good and the ugly, as well as the more challenging parts of history. Yet, there is a growing trend of attempting to erase Black history. In recent years, this disconcerting trend […]

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