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News Articles: Black History Month

Pascale Sablan was once told she'd never become an architect because she's Black and a woman. Now she works for one of the world's most prestigious firms and she wants more people who look like her to join the field.

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  • Architecture

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

Pascale Sablan was told she'd never become an architect because she's Black and a woman. Now she works for one of the world's top firms and she wants more people who look like her to join the field.

March 13, 2023
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Author and historian Velma Thomas Fann writes about and lectures on the life and legacy of suffragist Mamie George Williams.

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  • News

Marker honoring suffragist Mamie George Williams planned for Savannah

A new monument is planned to go up this May at the intersection of East Broad and East Henry Street in Savannah to commemorate suffragist and community leader Mamie George Williams.

February 27, 2023
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By:
  • Peter Biello
The Woodson family members at the Woodson reconciliation ceremony in 1998.

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  • Race

1 side owned slaves. The other side started Black History Month. How a family heals

In the U.S., what does it mean when a white family and a Black family share a last name — and one of their ancestors is a pioneer of Black history? How Black and white Woodsons became one family.

February 21, 2023
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By:
  • Sandhya Dirks
The special police car TK

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  • Race

A Black History Month-themed police car in Miami draws criticism

Some community members describe the cruiser as tone deaf and ill-timed, given tensions with police around the country. Miami police said they stand by the decision to unveil the special design.

February 05, 2023
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Vice President Harris (center) marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 6, 2022,  in Selma, Ala., to commemorate the 57th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.

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  • Race

It's Black History Month. Here are 3 things to know about the annual celebration

The annual celebration started out in 1926 as Negro History Week and expanded to Black History Month in the 1970s. This year's theme is "Black Resistance."

February 01, 2023
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state rejected the African American studies course because education "is about the pursuit of truth, not the imposition of ideology or the advancement of a political agenda."

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  • Education

Critics say Florida aims to rewrite history by rejecting African American studies

"One Governor should not have the power to dictate the facts of U.S. history," Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said of GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' move to ban the Advanced Placement course.

January 27, 2023
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  • Giulia Heyward
Post racist attack in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. American National Red Cross Photograph Collection.

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  • Race

Why does Black History Month matter?

There is an ongoing debate as to whether U.S. history segregates Black history in February or whether Black History Month brings forward necessary untold stories.

February 27, 2022
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By:
  • Sandhya Dirks

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  • Food

From 'Milkshake' to veggies, Kelis and Ron Finley share their farm journeys

Grammy-nominated recording artist and chef Kelis talks to urban gardener Ron Finley about growing your own food, the relationship between Black people and the land, and how to handle a mean rooster.

February 24, 2022
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  • GPB Newsroom
The house were Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott were married in 1953 near Marion, Ala., is shown on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. Long vacant, it's not open to visitors and doesn't have a sign or historical marker.

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  • History

Historic Coretta Scott home where she wed MLK now forgotten

A little-known but important piece of American history stands vacant on a two-lane highway in rural western Alabama. It's the house where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott were married in 1953.

February 11, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Constance Baker Motley is pictured in New York, Sept. 9, 1966.

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  • Race

The life of a 'Civil Rights Queen'

Constance Baker Motley's life—as a lawyer, as a politician and the first Black woman appointed to the Federal bench – is outlined in a new biography by author Tomiko Brown-Nagin: Civil Rights Queen.

February 03, 2022
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  • Karen Grigsby Bates
At the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963, African Americans carry placards demanding equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing and an end to bias.

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  • History

Here's the story behind Black History Month — and why it's celebrated in February

Black History Month grew from a weeklong celebration that started nearly 100 years ago — and it's not random that it's in February.

February 01, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Explosion at Thiokol plant

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  • History

Thiokol Explosion: 50 Years Later, Families Seek To Be Remembered

Those killed and maimed weren’t wearing uniforms like the thousands of Georgians deployed aboard during the war. They were mostly poor, Black women who worked for $1.65 an hour assembling trip flares for the U.S. Army at the Thiokol Chemical Corp. munitions plant.

February 04, 2021
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By:
  • Laura Corley
Protest in Macon during Civil Rights era

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  • History

Meet The 'Conquering Heroes' Who Helped Desegregate Macon's Buses

The boycott started with the goal of desegregating the buses and having the bus company hire Black bus drivers, and it lasted three weeks. The boycott ended with a ruling from Federal Judge W. A. Bootle ordering the desegregation of Bibb Transit Co. buses.

February 02, 2021
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By:
  • Jenna Eason
Emmett Till was killed at the age of 14 while visiting family in Mississippi

Emmett Till's Cousin Continues Her Family's Search For Justice

One night in 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was visiting his family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped by a gang of white men and killed after he...

August 28, 2019
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By:
  • Leah Fleming and
  • Taylor Gantt
Rosa Parks (left) is often cited as the spark that ignited civil rights change in Montgomery, but women like Claudette Colvin (right) paved the way for Park's historical protest.

Rosa Parks And The 'Rebellious' Women That Came Before Her

When you hear the name Rosa Parks, you probably flash back to your black history month education. She's often credited as the woman who refused to move...

February 28, 2019
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By:
  • Leah Fleming and
  • Taylor Gantt
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