Briank Mitchell News Today

Compared with patients who fasted, those who didn’t reported a better overall experience with zero safety compromises.

Occasionally I am asked by scholars, journalists, teachers, and students of varying grades to comment on the Elaine Massacre of 1919. While many of the questions are repetitive, from time to time a novel idea or question emerges from the inquiries.

Five stories from professors of color who’d had enough.

Louisiana elected Oscar Dunn as the nation's first black lieutenant governor in 1868.

Brian K. Mitchell's discovery of altered Army medical records led to military honors for a man slain in the 1919 Elaine Massacre.

My New Orleans 05/24/2021   NEW ORLEANS (press release) – The Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage (SDUSMP) selected “Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana” as a recipient of its 2021 Phillis Wheatley Book Award. The announcement was made Friday, May 21, at the annual SDUSMP meeting, which was held virtually. Established in 2011, SDUSMP is a nonprofit lineage society dedicated to preserving the memory of its members’ freed and ensl...

On April 11, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln delivered what would be his last speech from a window at the White House to the crowd below. They had gathered there expecting a celebratory speech on Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lees surrender to Ulysses S. Grant just two days earlier.  But that evening, Lincolns speech was about Reconstruction, readmitting Louisiana into the Union and a proposal for "giving the benefit of public schools equally to Black and White, and empowering the Legislature to ...

Louisiana Center for the Book presents annual Black History Month Program Posted: Feb 12, 2021 11:50 AM Posted By: Akemi Briggs BATON ROUGE, La. – The Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of Louisiana, in partnership with The Historic New Orleans Collection, will celebrate Black History Month with a virtual presentation, “A Monumental Task: How Brian K. Mitchell Unearthed the Story of His Famous Ancestor Oscar Dunn, America’s First Black Lieutenant Governor.” The pre-rec...

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