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Local athletes get crash course on Black history in Arizona
Basketball players from Arizona State University and the Valley Suns gathered on Jan. 6 to learn about Black history in Arizona and Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to ASU's Tempe campus in 1964. The Valley Suns, one of 31 teams in the NBA’s developmental G League, participated in the event as part o...
Photo album sparks discovery of ASU's first female African American graduate
Michele Neptune McHenry and her husband, Joseph McHenry, were slowly making their way through the photo album when they came upon the photos and name card. The card, gray in tone, was about 1-by-2 inches. On it was a name: Miss Stella McHenry....
Archives of American Slavery - Elise Daniells
For the longest time, the documentation of African slavery in the United States has been reliant on the experiences and resources of White plantation owners and modern U.S. history textbooks written by White scholars. Due to the seemingly limited access to literacy for slaves, it was widely believed...