Edna Regina Lewis was born on April 16, 1913 in Freetown, a small farming community in Orange County, Virginia. Freetown was founded by three men, one of who was her grandfather, and its name was homage to their newly-attained emancipatio...
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Issue 19
In the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, June Marie Giles, in 1964, gave birth to a baby boy who would be named Jeffery Henderson. His father, Charles Henderson, worked as a welder. Reared by his mother, Jeff was born sever...
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Double Victory presents the pivotal and historic role that Blacks, as Tuskegee Airmen, played during World War II. The Tuskegee Airmen valiantly fought a war on two fronts: they fought against fascism overseas and they fought for racial justi...
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Based upon history, The Tuskegee Airmen opens with Hannibal “Iowa” Lee (Laurence Fishburne) on a train, traveling to Tuskegee, Alabama. Set during World War II, Lee is en route to flight training school at Moton Field. He, along with other ...
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“Black music is such a reflection of what is going on in Black life …”
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The Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site was founded to honor the many contributions African-Americans enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II made to American history and society. These African-Americans, called “Tuskegee...
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Located at 520 16th St N in Birmingham, Alabama, the Birmingham Civil Right Institute (BCRI) is an interpretive museum and research institution centered upon the trials and triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s and 1...
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