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In Praise of Mayme Clayton: Images of the African American West
Dr. Mayme Clayton was born in Arkansas and transplanted to California, where she served as law librarian at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), beginning in 1957. In 1969 she helped put together the university’s African American Studies Center Library. But her most astounding
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ACH Clear Pathways purchases Kaufmann Center in Hill District
In fact, as the organization ACH Clear Pathways celebrated its groundbreaking of a new addition to the Kaufmann Center, the building in the Hill District now owned by ACH Clear Pathways, Dr. Butler joked about his moment to speak to the crowd, sandwiched in between well-known local orators like
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Indictment in Atlanta Murders
Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicted Wayne B. Williams, a twenty-three-year-old photographer, for the murder of two of the twenty-eight Black youths killed in a series of slayings and disappearances in Atlanta. William denied the charges but was convicted in February, 1982.
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Augustus Washington: One of Historys Few Known African American Daguerreotypists
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Asia's ecosystems were buckling under overtourism. When the tourists return, it has to be different - L.A. Focus Newspaper
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Naomi Campbell Shoots Vogue Cover With A Black Photographer For First Time In Her 34 Year Career
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The realities of being a black birdwatcher | The Atlanta Voice
As a black birdwatcher and professional nature photographer, his presence with a camera can arouse suspicion among white
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A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter prohibited from covering the city’s Black Lives Matter protests because of a tweet sued the paper on
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Pittsburgh NAACP ‘working hard’ despite the naysayers, president says | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer Contrary to what he called the “naysayers,” Pittsburgh NAACP President Richard A. Stewart Jr. said the local NAACP and its members are “working hard”—working hard to promote non-violence in Black communities, working hard to let residents know that coronavirus
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Black Models Are Sharing Their Stories In Powerful Portraits Captured Completely Over FaceTime – Free Press of Jacksonville
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