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Topic: Black history month

A complex & fraught "Finding Your Roots"

Melanie McFarland
A sign stands outside of a McDonald's restaurant (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

McDonald’s and Black America

FoodPrint - FoodPrint
Martin Luther King Jr. | Capitol Riot on January 6th, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

America's always had a pro-fascist side

Chauncey DeVega
People hold up signs during a rally against "critical race theory" (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

GOP parents: Black History Month is CRT

Brad Reed - Raw Story
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US radio talk show host and conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh looks on before introducing US President Donald Trump to deliver remarks at a Make America Great Again rally in Cape Girardeau, MO, on November 5, 2018. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

WI GOP honor Limbaugh over Black History

Chris Walker - Truthout
Julius Vance, Laville Williams, and Allen Ware stand and smile while selling the Chicago Defender, the leading African American newspaper in 1982 (The Abbott Sengstacke Family Papers/Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)

Brownies’ Book: A pioneering publication

Paige Gray - The Conversation
On the far left, Harriet Tubman (c1820 - 1913) abolitionist leader and founder of the Underground Railroad (MPI/Getty Images)

Tubman, a woman of faith, for $20 bill

Robert Gudmestad - The Conversation
African-American men voting in a state election in the south during reconstruction in an 1867 illustration from Harper's Weekly. That year in the reconstruction states 703,000 Blacks and 627,000 Whites voted. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

What to know about Reconstruction

Tiffany Mitchell Patterson - The Conversation
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Stacey Dash (AP/Eric Charbonneau)

Stacey Dash arrested in Florida

Sky Palma - Raw Story
FILE - In this Jan. 27, 1993 file photo, American author Toni Morrison is shown at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. Her novels, such as 1987's "Beloved," have shone a light on the racial prejudices that have afflicted her homeland. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) (AP)

Read: African American women writers

Nancy Kang - The Conversation
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington DC, August 28, 1963; Justice for Freddie Gray protest on April 29, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland (Hulton Archive/Andrew Burton)

Despair, justice and Black History Month

Chauncey DeVega
Esquire March '19 Cover; Ncuti Gatwa in "Sex Education" (Esquire/Sam Taylor/Netflix)

Which boy's life?

Melanie McFarland
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(Getty/FatCamera)

Doctors need to talk openly about race

Aisha Wagner
Madam C. J. Walker (Wikimedia)

Black millionaires before C.J. Walker

Shomari Wills
(AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Why black America doesn't trust banks

Marcus Anthony Hunter - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

America's black inventors

Shontavia Johnson - The Conversation
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Details of broadsides advertising performances by Richard Potter and his mentor (Historic Northampton, Massachusetts/American Antiquarian Society)

America's first black celebrity

John A. Hodgson
Barry Bonds (Getty/Robert Laberge/Spencer Platt/Salon)

Boston PD's Black History goof

Rachel Leah
Martin Luther King Jr., his wife Coretta (right) and John Lewis (far right), lead a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 1965 (AP)

Desegregating blood

Thomas A Guglielmo - The Conversation
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (Wikimedia)

America's first black pop star

Adam Gustafson - The Conversation
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Armed members of the Black Panthers Party in the Capitol in Sacramento, May 2, 1967. (AP/Walt Zeboski)

Black nationalist women's hidden history

Keisha N. Blain - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)

Left behind by progress?

Sharon Austin - The Conversation
(AP Photo, File)

MLK and the ancient Greeks

Timothy Joseph - The Conversation
Martin Luther King Jr., flanked by his wife Coretta and John Lewis, leads a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama (AP)

The Civil Rights movement, weaponized

Jeanne Theoharis
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