65 years ago, four Black students sat at 'all-white' Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro
Feb. 1, 2025, marked 65 years since four Black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter at Woolworth's in ...
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Celebrate our January photo challenge: The art of black-and-white
You absolutely crushed our January 'B&W Street' photo challenge! See some of the stunning black-and-white street photos from your fellow DPReview photographers.
He’s the first Black American to compose a full opera. It’s finally being staged after 138 years
For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled ...
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Discover How Four Black College Students Sparked a Nationwide Civil Rights Movement, on This Date in 1960
By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent acts of civil disobedience ...
Complete history of Black QBs in the Super Bowl, from Doug Williams to historic Chiefs vs. Eagles rematch
When Super Bowl LVII kicks off in New Orleans, it will be a historic matchup. The Kansas City Chiefs are looking to claim ...
The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...
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One of the Oldest Surviving Operas by a Black American Composer Will Be Performed for the First Time—138 Years After It Was Written
Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...
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Coolidge Corner Theatre celebrates Black icons of cinema
For Black History Month, the cinema is hosting a six-film retrospective shining a spotlight on groundbreaking performances ...
In the Footsteps of the Enslaved
Bey’s show gets its name from a passage in the second stanza of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the hymn by James Weldon Johnson ...