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McNeil and three other Black freshmen held a famous sit-in at Woolworth’s in 1960, which inspired peaceful protests across the country Sarah Kuta – Daily Correspondent Joseph McNeil, one of the “Greensboro Four” who sparked nationwide demonstrations over segregated lunch counters in 1960, has died at age 83. The cause of death was Parkinson’s disease, per the NewContinue reading “Joseph McNeil, Member of ‘Greensboro Four’ Who Protested Segregation at Lunch Counters, Dies at 83”

During and after the Civil War, inventive illustrations allowed Democrats and Republicans to turn American ballots into powerful propaganda Jonathan W. White – Author, A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House In the mid-19thcentury, election ballots were created by political parties, not the government. Local Republican and Democratic operatives designed and printedContinue reading “Back in the 19th Century, Your Election Ballot Could Double as a Work of Art”

Toyin Ojih Odutola conjures a world that might have been Amy Crawford – Contributing Writer Acclaimed for her life-size pastel and charcoal portraits, Toyin Ojih Odutola now offers up a world so rich the writer Zadie Smith has compared it to a “novel of high society written by an African Edith Wharton.” The pictures appear in The UmuEzeContinue reading “Imagining a Different History for Africa Through Art”