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News Articles: Series: Black History Month 2022

Madison Pough snowboards at Mountain Creek Resort as Diaz looks on and coaches.

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  • Sports

Snowboarding was his passion. Making the sport more inclusive became his mission

For nearly all its history, snowboarding has been a sport that is disproportionately white. Through his Hoods to Woods Foundation, Brian Paupaw is trying to change that.

February 16, 2022
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By:
  • Dustin Jones
Lee Morgan was killed in 1972, tragedy cutting short the life and career of the prolific and celebrated jazz musician. Nearly 50 years later, one fan discovered that Morgan's resting place seemed to have vanished.

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  • Music Features

How a jazz legend's resting place was lost and found, 50 years after his tragic death

Though the trumpeter Lee Morgan was killed in 1972, his legacy was well maintained. At least it seemed so, until one fan discovered last year that Morgan's gravesite seemed to have vanished.

February 16, 2022
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By:
  • Nate Chinen
Banners and signs are hung on a fence at Lafayette Square near the White House, during ongoing protests against police brutality and racism in June 2020. The Library of Congress has digitized some of the pieces of artwork, signs and photographs once displayed on the fence.

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  • Arts & Life

Artwork from the Black Lives Matter memorial has a new home: the Library of Congress

The artwork that once served as a memorial to the movement is being displayed in a new online exhibit at the Library of Congress. So far, 33 pieces are posted.

February 12, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Autherine Lucy Foster (center), the first black student to attend the University of Alabama, waves as the university awarded her an honorary doctorate during a commencement ceremony, on May 3, 2019, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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  • National

University of Alabama will remove Klan leader's name from a campus building after all

The university's trustees voted to strip the name of a one-time governor who led the Ku Klux Klan from a campus building and rename it solely for the school's first Black student.

February 12, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Catherine Russell's Tiny Desk (home) concert.

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  • Music

Catherine Russell: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

The celebrated jazz singer performs a selection of popular early jazz standards at the GB Juke Joint Studio.

February 11, 2022
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By:
  • Suraya Mohamed
Shamir Bailey.

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  • Music Interviews

On a new album, 'Heterosexuality,' Shamir tackles the trauma of being oneself

Shamir's new album, 'Heterosexuality,' confronts how the public viewed him back in 2014, when his debut single nearly made him a pop star at the age of 19.

February 10, 2022
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By:
  • A Martínez and
  • Victoria Whitley-Berry
The Supreme Court pictured in a photo from 2021. Justice Stephen Breyer is set to retire at the end of the term. President Biden has pledged to seat a Black woman on the court.

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  • Race

A Black woman on the High Court is a good start. But representation has limits.

With President Biden set to appoint the first Black woman Supreme Court justice, Black women in the legal profession reflect on the limits and promises of representation.

February 10, 2022
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By:
  • Sandhya Dirks
GPB News NPR

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  • Race

3rd grader Dana Boone finds an innovative way to mark Black History Month

With the help of his mom, Dana Boone created the Periodic Table of Black History. Rather than elements, this table contains 90 Black history-makers, activists and innovators.

February 09, 2022
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  • GPB Newsroom
Engraved portrait of Abraham Galloway from William Still's <em>The Underground Railroad</em>, published in 1872.

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  • History

Abraham Galloway is the Black figure from the Civil War you should know about

Galloway escaped enslavement, became a Union spy and helped recruit thousands of Black soldiers to fight with the North, but his name has been largely left out of the Civil War narrative.

February 08, 2022
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
For her new documentary, <em>Lynching Postcards: Token Of A Great Day, </em>filmmaker Christine Turner examined hundreds of black-and-white photographs that show how organized these events were and included chilling messages that shared the experience with those who weren't there. The postcard above shows the crowd at the lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas, in 1893.

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  • History

How Black activists used lynching souvenirs to expose American violence

Christine Turner, the filmmaker behind the short documentary, Lynching Postcards: 'Token of A Great Day,' talks about her film and its present-day resonance.

February 08, 2022
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By:
  • Adrian Florido,
  • Sarah Handel,
  • and 1 more
GPB News NPR

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  • National

Bomb threats against Black institutions are deeply rooted in U.S. history

"HBCUs are resilient institutions that will persist through all forms of adversity," the Congressional Bipartisan HBCU Caucus said after bomb threats earlier this month.

February 08, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Civil rights leaders who met with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday called for the league to establish specific recruiting and hiring procedures for executive and coaching positions, with meaningful consequences for teams that do not abide by the rules.

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  • Race

Civil rights leaders call on the NFL to replace the Rooney Rule

The Rooney Rule, a policy that went into effect in 2003, requires NFL teams to interview candidates of color for head coaching and senior operation vacancies.

February 07, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin

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  • Books

What great book by a Black author should be brought to the screen next?

Octavia Butler's 1979 novel Kindred is being made into a TV series. So we asked authors and critics what other not-yet-filmed books by Black authors they'd most like to see adapted for screen.

February 07, 2022
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
GPB News NPR

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  • National

First Black University of Alabama student to share a building name with a Klan leader

A University of Alabama building will share the names of a Klan leader and its first Black student

February 07, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Dancers performing the Cakewalk.

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  • Music

Reconsidering Scott Joplin's 'The Entertainer'

The king of ragtime published his hit tune 120 years ago. Pianist Lara Downes believes the piece helped shape the future of American music.

February 07, 2022
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By:
  • Lara Downes
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