NEW YORK (AP) -- Manning Marable, an influential historian whose forthcoming Malcolm X biography could revise perceptions of the slain civil rights leader, died Friday, just days before the book described as his life's work was to be released. He was 60. Read the complete article
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) -- Clemson University anthropology students will be scratching below the surface of Upstate history in a northern Pickens County cemetery where former slaves were buried and, until recently, forgotten. Read the complete article
The University of Virginia has acquired a rare first edition of an 1829 anti-slavery manifesto that was considered a rallying cry for black Americans and a major threat to Southern leaders, who worked vigorously to ban it. Read the complete article
Of all the remarkable stories told about the U.S. Army’s all-Black cavalries known as the Buffalo Soldiers, the most remarkable of all is surely that of the 25th Infantry Brigade Bicycle Corps. Read the complete article
You might not know it, but at the turn of the 20th Century, bicycle races were bigger than baseball. And much like today, the racers were largely White, affluent males. But in 1896, Marshall “Major” Taylor emerged on the track-racing circuit. He would become one of his era’s biggest stars... Read the complete article
For more than a decade, starting back in the early 1970s, North Portland families in search of a good deal on bikes went to Charles and Dolores Crews’ shop off Lombard near Roosevelt High School. Read the complete article
African-American slaves sweated in the summer heat and shivered in the winter’s cold while helping to build the U.S. Capitol. Congress took note of their service and sacrifice Wednesday by erecting commemorative plaques inside the Capitol in their honor. Read the complete article
The Oregon History Museum will be hosting the largest exhibit ever of the Pendleton Round-Up, a 100-year-old western exhibition that broke down barriers of race and sex ...
One organization is helping to keep the memory of Oregon’s first Black settlers alive... Read the complete article
While other pioneer organizations are built around preserving and honoring a community’s roots, the Seattle-based Northwest Black Pioneers is firmly focused on helping young people go to college.... Read the complete article
