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Black communities burdened by air pollution may finally get answers
Many Black communities around Atlanta have voiced concerns about pollution for years but have lacked data to support their claims.
‘The Weeping Time’: Largest sale of enslaved blacks in U.S. history
In 1859, Pierce Mease Butler decided to sell 436 enslaved African Americans who worked his plantations in order to settle his massive debts.
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Black double-consciousness: Du Bois’ century-plus concept still valid
A Black History Month look at "double-consciousness," a black American struggle that W.E.B. Du Bois first wrote about in 1897 that remains relevant.
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‘The Mothers of Gynecology’ remembered in Montgomery monument
J. Marion Sims is known as the “father of gynecology.” Lesser known is that he experimented on enslaved Black women in Montgomery, Alabama without their consent or anesthesia.
Black doll, white doll, and racial shame that’s nothing to play with
A Black History Month look at the groundbreaking doll test that studied children's attitudes about how color affects being good, pretty and popular.
16th Street Baptist Church: Site of tragedy galvanized a movement
AJC Sepia Black History Month: 16th Street Baptist Church, site of bombing that killed four young girls in 1963, galvanized civil rights movement
At Tuskegee, U.S. experimented on Black men with syphilis for 40 years
Officially called the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” the federal government oversaw an experiment in which about 400 African-American men in the Ala...
The Rosewood Massacre: How a lie destroyed a black town
Black History Month: Rosewood, Florida was an all-black community before it was destroyed by whites in a 1923 race riot.
29 reasons to learn from Black History Month: No. 8, the 1906 Atlanta riot
In 1906, the city of Atlanta exploded when as many as 25 African Americans and two whites would die on the downtown streets of Atlanta in a four-day race riot.