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The Winn Tee Pee Cottage Motel in Winona is long gone. So is the Cassius Restaurant in downtown Minneapolis, whose flamboyant owner was the first Black man to secure a liquor license in the segregated city. Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and the Harlem Globetrotters once bunked at St. Paul’s Wilson Villa, now a modest home that […]
ST. GEORGE, S.C. (AP) — As Ralph James settled into the restored, highbacked desk at the segregated school he attended in rural South Carolina, he remembered the old school bell, the cascading light through tall windows, the Christmas pageant and the basketball court just outside. It was in schools like this one, and nearly 5,000 […]
ST. GEORGE, S.C. (AP) — As Ralph James settled into the restored, highbacked desk at the segregated school he attended in rural South Carolina, he remembered the old school bell, the cascading light through tall windows, the Christmas pageant and the basketball court just outside. It was in schools like this one, and nearly 5,000 […]
The moral dimension of Humphrey’s education about fascism deepened in a two-semester course drily entitled Sociology 211-212, Seminar in Social Theory, and taught by the recently arrived Dr. Rudolf Heberle, an exile by choice from the German Reich. During the summer of 1932, as a lecturer at the University of Kiel, Hebrle traversed the German […]
Lt. Frank J. Crawford of Detroit, Michigan, as the Regimental plans and training officer, is giving his men instructions in combat maneuvers. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Lt. Frank J. Crawford of Detroit, Michigan, as the Regimental plans and training officer, is giving his men instructions in combat maneuvers. Bettmann […]
News India Indian cities as segregated on caste, religious lines as US on Black, White lines, says new research The new paper states that 26% of Muslims and 17% of SCs lives in neighbourhoods with 80% population of respective community The paper covered 1.5 million neighbourhoods in cities and villages.Listen to this article Your browser […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — There’s history untold amid the dozens of neighborhoods in the city of Raleigh. How those neighborhoods came to be often gets lost in time. And that can be especially true if the neighborhoods are historically Black. A Raleigh author’s new book is telling the stories of these communities and the lessons […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Millions of letters and packages sent to U.S. troops had accumulated in warehouses in Europe by the time Allied troops were pushing toward the heart of Hitler’s Germany near the end of World War II. This wasn’t junk mail — it was the main link between home and the front in […]
The U.S. student body is more diverse than ever before. Nevertheless, public schools remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. That’s according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). More than a third of students (about 18.5 million of them) attended a predominantly same-race/ethnicity school during the 2020-21 […]
Pastor Don Barlow sits in the front pew of his Baptist church on Rochester’s southeast side, holding a piece of paper, faded by decades in Olmsted County’s archives but still clear in its intent. “This property shall never be occupied by a Negro,” Barlow reads from the deed for the plat of land where his […]