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Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown of Eatonville, Florida, was one of the first all-black municipalities incorporated in the U.S.

Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown of Eatonville, Florida, was one of the first all-black municipalities incorporated in the U.S.

Vanderbilt researcher Brandon Byrd will present his findings May 24 at Spencer Research Library

With another case of police brutality facing our community, reacting with the desire to enact change, the Association for the Study of African American life and History has announced the theme for this 2023 Black History Month.

Opinion Opinion Advocates for ideas and draws conclusions based on the author/producer’s interpretation of facts and data. 100 Years After the Tulsa Race Massacre, What Have We Learned? May 31, 2021 Residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma look at the “Black Wall Street Memorial” while celebrating Juneteenth in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, the site of the 1921 race massacre, on June 19, 2020. PHOTO BY SETH HERALD/AFP/GETTY IMAGES I will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our...

Wichita native returns to paint Douglass Activity Center mural A mural depicting a number of scenes tied to the Douglass community in Manhattan is being painted at the new Activity Center there by a Wichita native. EuGene V. Byrd III returned to his home state from Atlanta to paint the piece that has the man who led the Exodusters to Kansas, Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, at its center. Byrd credits high school friend Lee McFarley, who now lives in Manhattan, with tipping him off about the...