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The Fisk Jubilee singers: They Introduced the World to Songs of Slavery. It Almost Broke Them.

Prince Nico Mbarga: His Biggest Hit Sold More Copies Than Any of the Beatles’. So Why Haven’t You Heard of Him?

All African-American World War II women’s battalion, the ‘Six Triple Eight’

Dec. 25, 1951: Murder of Harriette and Harry Moore in Florida.

‘Higher Learning’, an often forgotten gem by John Singleton.

Betye Saar

The Slave Bible: ‘Let the story be told’

The murder of James Byrd 1998

Una Marson, the Jamaican poet, editor and journalist added a vital feminist perspective to the male-dominated black internationalist movement

Songs of Our Native Daughters shines new light on African-American women’s stories of struggle, resistance, and hope. Pulling from and inspired by 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century sources, including slave narratives and early minstrelsy

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A Dedication
To Jamie Stewart, who died while in police custody, London 1989

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