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The Ebony revolution: magazine sparked major changes in perceptions and practice
REVOLUTIONS come in different shapes, sizes and colors. REVOLUTIONS come in different shapes, sizes and colors. Some come shouting, with...
Ebony, 11/01/05 by Lerone Bennett, Jr. · More from publication -
19th century AD
SILENTLY, stealthily, with revolver cocked, she slipped across the Mason-Dixon line and headed for a rendezvous point behind enemy lines. *...
Ebony, 03/01/05 by Lerone Bennett, Jr. · More from publication -
Jack Johnson and the Great White Hope Pt. II
THE ringside gong sounded, shushing the crowd. It was 2:45 p.m. on July 4, 1910, in Reno, Nevada, and the fight of the century was about to begin....
Ebony, 02/01/05 by Lerone Bennett, Jr. · More from publication -
Jack Johnson and the Great White Hope
NO other single event dug so deep into world consciousness until the Lindbergh flight 17 years later. NO other single event dug so deep into...
Ebony, 01/01/05 by Lerone Bennett, Jr. · More from publication -
Benjamin E. Mays: the last of the great schoolmasters
The Black college tradition has produced a long line of great educators--Mary McLeod Bethune, John Hope, Mordecai Johnson, Charlotte Hawkins...
Ebony, 09/01/04 by Lerone Bennett, Jr. · More from publication -
D-day at the Supreme Court.
This was going to be a day to remember. But nothing--neither the weather, nor the headlines, nor the stars of the preceding night foretold the...
Ebony, 05/01/04 by Lerone Bennett, Jr. · More from publication -
The day they marched - 40th Anniversary Of The March On Washington 1963-2003
IT was the beginning of something, and the ending of something. It came 100 years and 240 days after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation....
Ebony, 08/01/03 by Lerone Bennett, Jr. · More from publication -
Excerpt from the new 'Before the Mayflower: The African-American Century': revised edition of Black history classic says Blacks colored and shaped America's 20th century - Excerpt
IF there was pain in the struggle, there was also rebirth and regeneration. For it was in The Movement, and in struggle, that Black America was...
Ebony, 07/01/03 by Lerone Jr. Bennett · More from publication -
7 biggest lies about blacks & love & sex
IT'S no secret. Everybody knows the story of the Blacks and the birds and the bees. That story or, to be more precise, that myth--the myth of a...
Ebony, 06/01/03 by Lerone Bennett, Jr. · More from publication -
What Barbershop didn't tell you about Rosa Parks
In the movie Barbershop, one of the main characters said: "Rosa Parks didn't do nothin' but sit on her Black--." The movie triggered a national...
Ebony, 02/01/03 by Lerone Bennett, Jr. · More from publication
