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Black History Month 2022 Tiny Desk concerts and thought-provoking interviews.
Black History Month 2022
Colin Kaepernick, co-creator of the Netflix dramatic limited series, Colin in Black and White, attends the series premiere on Oct. 28, 2021. The former NFL quarterback has launched an initiative to offer free second autopsies in police-related deaths. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption
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Patti LaBelle performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert. Patti LaBelle hide caption
People pledge allegiance to America as they receive U.S. citizenship at a naturalization ceremony for immigrants in Los Angeles in 2017. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
1 in 10 Black people in the U.S. are migrants. Here's what's driving that shift
Nina Simone, in performance in 1964. Getty Images/Getty Images hide caption
Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden, pictured around 1942, with her granddaughter, Mary Othella Burnette, and two of Hayden's great-grandchildren. Mary O. Burnette hide caption
A granddaughter passes on the legacy of 'Granny Hayden,' a midwife born into slavery
Too $hort performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert Too $hort hide caption
Lee Morgan was killed in 1972, tragedy cutting short the life and career of the prolific and celebrated jazz musician. Nearly 50 years later, one fan discovered that Morgan's resting place seemed to have vanished. Joel Franklin/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
How a jazz legend's resting place was lost and found, 50 years after his tragic death
Catherine Russell's Tiny Desk (home) concert. NPR hide caption
Engraved portrait of Abraham Galloway from William Still's The Underground Railroad, published in 1872. William Still's 'The Underground Railroad,' 1872 hide caption
Abraham Galloway is the Black figure from the Civil War you should know about
For her new documentary, Lynching Postcards: Token Of A Great Day, filmmaker Christine Turner examined hundreds of black-and-white photographs that show how organized these events were and included chilling messages that shared the experience with those who weren't there. The postcard above shows the crowd at the lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas, in 1893. Photo by J.L. Mertins/Library of Congress hide caption
El DeBarge performs a Tiny Desk (home) Concert El DeBarge hide caption