today in black history

October 17, 2025

Historian and journalist, Lerone Bennett, Jr., senior editor of Ebony magazine, was born in 1928 in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

New York Post Protest

POSTED: February 20, 2009, 7:31 am

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Angry Protester marches against racism.

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