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The state of the black experience in Nevada; how has it been since George Floyd? What has to change?As we near the end of February, black history month, we’re going to reflect on the people, events, and places that make up the Black experience in…
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Claytee White, director of the Oral History Research Center at UNLV Libraries talked to KNPR's State of Nevada about some of the important landmarks for…
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February is Black History Month, and the Neon Museum is celebrating with an emphasis during its tours on the parts of its collection connected to Black…
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Born to enslaved parents on a Mississippi plantation during the Civil War, Ida B. Wells emerged as a powerful investigative journalist. She overcame death…
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It wasn’t too long ago that the name, Mississippi of the West, was used to derisively describe Las Vegas. It referred to the city’s sharp segregation of…
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“All I want is equality / For my sister, my brother, my people, and me”— Nina Simone, “Mississippi Goddam”
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, protests, politician action, and court orders chipped away at institutional discrimination in Southern Nevada.One of…
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From preserving history to fighting for voting rights to mentoring young people, the women of Delta Sigma Theta sorority have long worked to better the…
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The Nevada Preservation Foundation plans a series of Black History Month walking tours and lectures to recognize the African-American experience in Las…
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Many of the remaining Las Vegas civil rights pioneers gathered at the Westside School last week for the premiere of a documentary that chronicles Southern…