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Lil Kim Honored by NYC Council for African-American Music Appreciation Month

The Queen of Rap took over City Hall on Monday night.
By Madina Toure

NYC Honors African-American Community in Central Harlem With New Historic District

The late Dr. Martin Luther King gave a sermon at a church in the newly designated Central Harlem historic district.
By Madina Toure
William Bullard, Thomas A. & Margaret Dillion Family, about 1904; printed 2016, Facsimile produced from glass plate negatives lent by Frank Morrill.

Long Lost Photographic History of People of Color on Display in Worcester

'It isn't often that black Americans can connect the pictures to the stories that we were told by our elders.'
By Margaret Carrigan
The DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, see from under the Manhattan Bridge.

Bob Dylan Paints Brooklyn’s Top Instagram Spot, Boyle Heights Galleries Vandalized

By Alanna Martinez
Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer in Hidden Figures. The film won't be released until January, but the book it's based on is released today.

Meet the Black Female Mathematicians Who Helped America Win the Space Race

By John Bonazzo
President Lyndon B Johnson (1908 - 1973) discusses the Voting Rights Act with civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Google Just Added 5,000 Works of Black History

By Jas Chana

Down the Aisle With a Freed Slave

By Kamau Ware
Ta-Nehisi Coates.

What Ta-Nehisi Coates Can Learn From the Jewish Experience

By Andrew Eil

Teaching Kendrick Lamar and Social Justice in and Outside the Classroom

By Michelle Threadgould
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