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Herman A. Barnett III desegregated the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 1949.

How a Black veteran desegregated a Texas medical school Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2023

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The Peabody Administration building, captured on Oct. 24, 2022. (Hustler Multimedia/Claire Gatlin)

Peabody EDI Office responds to MSU shooting with email written using ChatGPT Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2023

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A flier advertising the new T.C. Williams School of Law from 1920.

Descendant of donor demands law school pay back $3.6 billion after ‘woke activists’ stripped school name Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2023

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HBCUs nationwide see a surge in interest and enrollment Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2023

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Nine of the 10 people killed in a shooting at a Buffalo supermarket. Top, from left, Katherine Massey, Aaron Salter, Pearly Young, Ruth Whitfield and Celestine Chaney. Bottom, Heyward Patterson, Roberta Drury, Andre (Elliott) Mackneil and Margus Morrison.

Buffalo grocery mass shooter gets life in prison at tense sentencing hearing for racist attack Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2023

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40 Acres and a Mule Would Be at Least $6.4 Trillion Today—What the U.S. Really Owes Black America Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2023

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'This Is Bigger Than Her’ Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2023

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Tyre Nichols and the Complexity of Institutional Racism Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2023

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Lawsuit seeks white woman’s arrest in Emmett Till kidnapping Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2023

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Harry T. Burleigh, photographed c. 1938

How Black Composers Shaped the Sound of American Classical Music Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2023

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