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    Long-Lost Writings of Malcolm X Find a Home in Harlem

    At a Manhattan auction house on Thursday, a missing chapter from Malcolm X’s autobiography, as well as a manuscript for the book containing notes exchanged between Malcolm X and his collaborator, Alex Haley, were sold to one of the country’s foremost institutions chronicling the African diaspora. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, located…

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    Anne Branigin

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    How the Republican Party Became The Party of Racism

    Here’s a joke: What’s the difference between a Klan rally and a Republican Convention? Answer: The dress code. Here’s another one: How white is the Republican Party? According to Pew Research, 83 percent of the registered voters who identify as Republican are non-Hispanic whites. The Republican Party is whiter than Tilda Swinton riding a polar…

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    Michael Harriot

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    MLK’s White Girlfriend Speaks Out After All These Years

    Those of us who study black history have always heard rumors of an alleged relationship between Martin Luther King Jr. and a white woman in his younger days.

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    Angela Helm

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    Did Black People Own Slaves?

    For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers

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    The Root Staff

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    Greenwood, Okla.: The Legacy of the Tulsa Race Riot

    Editor’s note: Here’s the story of a sad chapter of American history, pulled from The Root’s archives. J.B. Stradford, the son of a freed Kentucky slave, rose to prominence in Oklahoma during the early 1900s as one of the key developers of the all-black Tulsa enclave Greenwood. A lawyer and businessman, Stradford owned the 65-room…

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    The Root Staff

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