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Framingham’s Fuller School is named for this prominent 20th century Black couple MetroWest Daily News Source link
Part of the wreckage is seen as rescue boats search the waters of the Potomac River after a plane on approach to Reagan National Airport crashed into the river outside Washington, DC, January 30, 2025. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP The flight data and cockpit voice recorders have been recovered from the passenger jet that crashed […]
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, TARA COPP, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and LEA SKENE ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A midair collision between an Army helicopter and a jetliner killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft, officials said Thursday, as they scrutinized the actions of the military pilot in the country’s deadliest aviation disaster in almost a […]
Footnotes [1] “Introduction,” in Ruth Baston in The Black Educational Movement in Boston: A Sequence of Historical Events: A Chronology, (Northeastern University School of Education, 2001), 1. [2] Ruth Batson, The Black Educational Movement in Boston: A Sequence of Historical Events: A Chronology, (Northeastern University School of Education, 2001), 46. [3] Ruth Batson, “Thomas Atkins, […]
Steve Biko grabs the birthday cake with its flickering candles and thick yellow icing, dons a pink Arsenal hat and laughs at the camera, pulling the grinning crowd around him. On posters across Basel, this bright image, a Pop Art rendering of a rare photograph showing the charismatic South African activist at a private gig […]
On December 11, 1917, 13 Black soldiers were hanged following racial violence in Houston. It was the largest mass execution of American soldiers in the history of the U.S. Army. By September 1918, a total of 110 Black soldiers had been convicted and 19 had been hanged following military trials that the Army on Monday […]
In the following account, Professor Allison Blakely of Boston University describes the presence of blacks in Early Modern Europe. His article reminds us that persons of African ancestry resided across Europe. Their numbers ranged from a few hundred scattered across Germany, Scandinavia and Russia in the period between the 16th and 18th Centuries to approximately […]
By Graeme Baker BBC News, Washington 11 April 2024 Updated 6 hours ago To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser Video caption, OJ Simpson: His life and the trial that defined it OJ Simpson, the former American football star turned actor who was controversially cleared of double murder, has died […]
Afro Newspaper/Gado / Contributor / Getty Images In San Antonio, TX at the Veterans Cemetery at Fort Sam Houston, there is a row of headstones for soldiers missing the name, rank, date of birth, and the wars in which they fought. Who do these graves belong to? “Members of the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, […]