Tag: black history

By Jenna Fryer, Associated Press Alice Dearing has an afro, a voluminous puff nearly impossible to protect in most swimming caps. Her hair shrinks if...

By Steven Wine, Associated Press Duke Slater was so good the NFL couldn’t keep him out. For a Black player in the 1920s and ’30s, that...

By Airik Myers, The Seattle Medium ‘Hey, Google, what happened on this day in Black History?’ is a term that might become a daily ritual...

By Nina Turner For decades, the Black press has been the vanguards of the Black community’s history and the guardians of our future. They have...

Edited by Hugh Dougherty and Alex Willemyns | Zenger News Laura Smalley’s voice crackles and comes to life. It is 1941, and she is talking in...