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Black History

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Deep Roots

Defying the ‘Victim’ Label

African-Americans: Not Victims but Human

The Conversation U.S. in ZORA

Medical Exploitation of Black People In America Goes Far Beyond The Cells Stolen From Henrietta Lacks That Produced…

Ajah Hales in ZORA

Black girl with black Stetson hat sits Indian-style on a couch, reading a book

Black History 365

What is Black August?

Tai Salih E-RYT® 500, YACEP® (she/her) in ZORA

Preserving Black Cultural History: Our Kingdom on the Nile

Whitney Alese in ZORA

There will be no mourning Carolyn Bryant Donham

Decades after her lie led to Emmett Till’s lynching…

Dr. Allison Wiltz in ZORA

WOMANISM + HISTORY

In Josephine Baker’s Activism, Black Joy and Struggle Live Side by Side

Dominique Simpson in ZORA

A Black woman standing in a dim parking garage with the light shining on her.

To Be Woman and Black

To exist in this world being woman and black is a masterful paradox. The…

Angela Rose Myers in ZORA

My Grandfather’s HBCU Legacy Lives on Through My NAACP Leadership

Our Journey from Jamaica to Morgan…

Melissa Edwards in ZORA

Family portraits hanging on the wall with dim lighting.

I Found My Black History In Grandma’s Hands

Hands. Years ago, when my nearly 30-year-old daughter was closer to single-digit…

Bridgette L. Hylton in ZORA

Black History Month Is About More Than Slavery and Dr. King

How this mother is challenging the way we…