today in black history

July 16, 2025

Journalist and civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells, a founder of the NAACP, was born on this date in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

New York Post Protest

POSTED: February 20, 2009, 7:37 am

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Outraged Protester talks about the contributions of Black Americans

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