Putting Humans on Display: Paris Museum Probes a Racist Tradition

Exhibit at the Quai Branly Museum helps people question deep-held beliefs about the "other"

2011-11-28

Angela Charlton The Associated Press

PARIS (AP) -- It's a queasy experience, viewing chained tribal dancers do a white man's bidding, or African women stripped and photographed to feed European curiosity. Read the complete article

Obama Protects Site That Played Major Role in American Slave History

Virginia’s Fort Monroe, where Dutch traders first brought Africans, is set to become national monument

2011-11-01

Darlene Superville The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama wants to protect a deactivated Army fort in Virginia's Tidewater area that played an important role in the nation's slave history. Read the complete article

VIDEO: Smithsonian Hosts 'The Black List' Portraits in DC

Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Combs among the 50 large-scale photographs of prominent African Americans

2011-10-27

Brett Zongker The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend, Sean Combs and Serena Williams now have a place in the National Portrait Gallery in a new show featuring leading black figures from entertainment, politics, sports and business. Read the complete article

Marine Corps to Teach Story of First Black Marines

Staunchly traditional military branch is looking to increase diversity

2011-10-24

Julie Watson The Associated Press

OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) -- Oscar Culp does not like to remember. His mind has erased the harshest details. But the pain still stings for the 87-year-old WWII veteran, who endured boot camp in a snake-infested North Carolina swampland as one of the first blacks admitted to the Marine Corps. Read the complete article

Oregon Senators Urge Panetta to Expedite Medal of Honor for Henry Lincoln Johnson

WWI Hellfighter was denied recognition because he was African American

2011-10-05

Helen Silvis Of The Skanner News

Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkeley have sent a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, asking him to award the Medal of Honor to WWI war hero Henry Lincoln Johnson. They have also asked Panetta to speed up the process, which normally takes two years. Read the complete article

City Where Civil War Began Getting MLK Memorial

Citizens committee in Charleston to decide design of monument

2011-09-28

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- The city where the Civil War began is getting a memorial to slain civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Read the complete article

Marcus Garvey Pardon Rejected by White House

Legal experts and others who have studied the Garvey case have long concluded that he was framed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and wrongfully convicted

2011-09-18

Tony Best, Los Angeles Sentinel

A bid to secure a posthumous presidential pardon for Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jamaica's first national hero, has been rejected out of hand by the Barack Obama White House in Washington. Read the complete article

Cherokees Expel Descendants of Slaves from Tribe

The 300,000-member tribe is the biggest in Oklahoma, although many of its members live elsewhere

2011-09-11

Justin Juozapavicius The Associated Press

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- One of the nation's largest American Indian tribes has sent letters to about 2,800 descendants of slaves once owned by its members, revoking their citizenship and cutting their medical care, food stipends, low-income homeowners' assistance and other services. Read the complete article

Guatemala Syphillis Experiment: Panel Reveals New Details

The Guatemala experiments are already considered one of the darker episodes of medical research in U.S. history, but panel members say new information shows the researchers were unusually unethical

2011-09-05

Mike Stobbe AP Medical Writer

A presidential panel last week disclosed shocking new details of U.S. medical experiments done in Guatemala in the 1940s, including a decision to re-infect a dying woman in a syphilis study. Read the complete article

Portland Gentrification: The North Williams Avenue That Was – 1956

The Skanner News this week unveils our special tribute to the families who lost their homes and businesses over the years

2011-08-09

Lisa Loving Of The Skanner News

If ever the City of Portland wanted a model for a 20-minute urban neighborhood, Albina in 1956 was it. Until city leaders opted to bulldoze it for “urban renewal.” Read the complete article