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Rosenwald Schools helped educate Black students in segregated South. Could a national park follow?
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 11 months agoAs Ralph James settled into the restored, highbacked desk at the segregated school he attended in...
This historic SC school once united a community. Now, they plan to bring it back to life
The State via Yahoo Canada News· 11 months agoThe St. George Rosenwald School was built for Black students during segregation. Abandoned, it fell...
Lexington’s Black rural hamlets are fading away. How city is trying to preserve history
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoThe Rosenwald-Washington school in Cadentown is the only Rosenwald school left in Fayette County. It...
Rosenwald Schools educated generations of Black Americans. Now, graduates are fighting to preserve...
CNN via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoRosenwald Schools were essential to educating Black children in the rural South at a time when...
Iconic piece of Charlotte’s Black history to be preserved forever. First, it has to move.
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoSeveral years ago, a group of citizens put their heads together on how to save an iconic piece of...
Lexington wants to raise $500,000 to preserve Black, rural hamlets. How you can help
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo Canada News· 12 months agoLexington officials are raising money to protect and honor historic, Black rural hamlets in Fayette...
Black Antisemitism Isn’t Rare. It’s Ingrained
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhat makes Kanye West and Kyrie Irving so dangerous and malignant is that there are thousands of young Black boys who see them, see their success and...
Black and Jewish Americans have a history of mutual support. We need that again now | Opinion
Miami Herald via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoThe historical partnership between Black and Jewish Americans is rooted, no doubt, in a sense of...
The US once withheld syphilis treatment from hundreds of Black men in the name of science. Newly...
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoThe archival trove chronicles the extreme measures administrators took to ensure Black sharecroppers did not receive treatment for the venereal disease.