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‘There are children here who do not want to be black’: one woman’s bid to save Mexico’s first Afro-Mexican museum

Museo de las Culturas Afromestizas

A museum dedicated to Afro-Mexican history faces closure if the single unpaid volunteer cannot find someone to follow in her footsteps.

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South Carolina woman posthumously wins settlement over Black ancestral land

Josephine Wright

The family of a Hilton Head woman who passed while facing a lawsuit over her home by developers is celebrating their win.

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Man convicted in Black transgender woman’s killing in first federal hate crime trial over gender identity

Dime Doe.

By James Pollard, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man was found guilty Friday of killing a Black transgender woman in the nation’s first federal trial over a…

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Very few architects are Black. This woman is pushing to change that

There is a devastating story that Pascale Sablan sometimes tells when she talks about the experiences that have shaped who she’s become.

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Meet the woman helping preserve the legacy of Black cowboys and cowgirls

Gooch and a horse

Black children learn about riding horses and Black history from Caitlin Gooch, who has studied Black cowboys.

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Jury Awards $1million to Oregon woman told ‘I don’t serve Black people’

Rose Wakefield has won a racial discrimination cases against an Oregon gas station attendant who refused to serve her.

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Claudine Gay to be Harvard’s 1st Black president, 2nd woman

After 136 years, Harvard University will have its first Black president in Claudine Gay, who is also the school’s second woman president.

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Woman says Arkansas Church Turned Her Away because She was Black

Racism remains pervasive in everyday interactions as illustrated by an experience one Arkansas woman describes having at a local church.

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‘So Impactful’: Michigan Woman Opens Bookstore Celebrating Black Authors

By Angelina Velasquez, Atlanta Black Star A Michigan bookstore is giving Black authors the spotlight they have long deserved but often struggled to find. Socialight Society bookstore is a microshop, a store…

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Dr. Anthony Fauci Appeals to Black Community: ‘The Vaccine That You’re Going to Be Taking Was Developed by an African American Woman’

With skepticism about the safety and efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine running high among African Americans, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, wants Black people to know that a Black woman, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, was heavily involved in developing one of the vaccines that will soon be available to Americans later this month.

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