colored

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A team from Georgetown University is investigating their deaths at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, a segregated juvenile detention facility in Cheltenham, Maryland, and memorializing them.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

Jackson pointed to other debates happening at the very same time, known as the Colored Conventions.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2025

One was that she did a production of Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” which reawakened the pull theater had on her spirit.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2024

Alta recalled being bowled over by “For Colored Girls” when Ms. Shange sent it to her.

From New York Times • May 17, 2024

Du Bois believed that one in every ten Colored men ought to become leaders, so they needed the same classical education that White men received.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson