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Philadelphia’s ‘Black Shining Prince’

Securely tucked away in the Print Department of The Library Company of Philadelphia’s collection of over 100,000 photographs, maps, drawings,

In the late 1820s, an industrious Black woman from Mississippi was living in Coahuila as a free woman and a

During the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, activists used marches, boycotts, sit-ins, picketing and other forms of peaceful protest to achieve

On October 13, 1970, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Angela Davis in New York facing indictments for kidnapping,

In late July 1955, after sailing to France and then taking a train to Poland, the Brazilian Black poet Solano