Karen Grigsby Bates
Stories
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Getting Out The Youth Vote With A Dash Of Snark
In these videos, it's black people calling the cops on white ones who are behaving in a socially irresponsible manner: They're not voting.
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New Biography More Fully Defines Playwright Lorraine Hansberry
Historian Imani Perry looks beyond Hansberry's artistic genius to her involvement in several movements — civil rights, LGBTQ rights, anti-colonialism — ahead of the popular curve.
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Bill Cunningham And 'Fashion Climbing'
Photographer Bill Cunningham democratized fashion by showing that style wasn't dependent on money or status in his photos for The New York Times. He died in 2016 but had secretly written a memoir.
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In 1968, Arthur Ashe Made History At The U.S. Open
Arthur Ashe is the only African-American man to win the U.S. Open. In 1968, tennis was his portal to fame, but he would go on to earn worldwide respect as a social justice activist as well.
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Play Gives Woman At The Center Of Emmett Till's Murder Case A Voice
Two friends, one black, one white, produce a short play about Carolyn Bryant, the woman at the center of Emmett Till's murder. Some of the same racial tensions exist, six decades later.