Black History: Special Delivery!!

“People can cry much easier than they can change.” -James Baldwin
Did you miss yesterday’s post? Click here to learn about Lloyd Gains, his Supreme Court victory and mysterious disappearance.
Equity & Exclusion, Pt. 3: The 1921 Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act. a law meant to help mothers ended up displacing a generation of Black midwives and birth workers.

Equity and Exclusion, Part 2: In January 1865, Savannah's Black ministers were asked what freedom actually required. Their answer led to Special Field Order No. 15, "40 Acres and a Mule." Within eighteen months, the promise was broken. Watch the story, one of 80 entries in Equity & Exclusion.

Equity and Exclusion: an interactive timeline tracing 250 years of federal actions and their impact on Black Americans.
