Tag: African Americans
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. To Oversee Oxford’s ‘African American English’ Dictionary
By Cori Zaragoza, Staff Writer
Oxford University Press has announced that it will undertake a three year project to create a dictionary of “African American...
African Americans, Hate Crimes And Money
By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher
Recently, the California Department of Justice released a report which showed that African Americans are the greatest victims of...
Civil Rights Champion Fred Gray Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
President Joe Biden yesterday awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor to Fred Gray, the courageous and tireless Montgomery lawyer who represented Rosa Parks and...
California Land Taken From Black Couple Returned to Heirs
By John Antczak, Associated Press
The board voted 5-0 on a motion to complete the transfer of parcels in an area once known as Bruce's...
Juneteenth Celebrates Just One of the United States’ 20 Emancipation Days
By Kris Manjapra, Tufts University
The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the...
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