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Nadra Kareem Nittle

Nadra Nittle is a veteran journalist who is currently the education reporter for The 19th. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, NBC News, The Atlantic, Business Insider and other outlets. She is the author of Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision and other books.

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American poet and author Maya Angelou gestures while speaking in a chair during an interview at her home on April 8, 1978.

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Maya Angelou Thrived in Multiple Careers Before Becoming a Writer

The poet and author of ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ constantly tackled new roles, including streetcar conductor, dancer and journalist.

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Chief Justice Earl Warren, pictured in 1966.

How the Warren Court Expanded Civil Rights in America

As chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Warren led a court that decided multiple historic rulings on civil rights cases.

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Engraving shows an agent from the Freedmen's Bureau as he separates two groups of armed men, one comprised of white men and the other of freed slaves, 1868. The Freedmen's Bureau was created to help refugees from the American Civil War.

The Short-Lived Promise of ’40 Acres and a Mule’

As the Civil War was ending, recently freed Black people were promised land to start independent lives—but Lincoln’s assassination led to that plan’s demise.

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First page of the newspaper Le Petit Journal Sunday 7 October 1906 in illustration "Lynching" Massacre in the United States of African Americans in Atlanta (Georgia).

The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre: How Fearmongering Led to Violence

As African Americans achieved economic success in Atlanta in the early 1900s, the city simmered with racial strife that was further inflamed by yellow journalism.

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