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

A showman who, as the author of “The Colored Museum,” was fully at home in more abstract realms of playwriting, he knew how to balance radical theatricality with more conventional storytelling panache.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025

“I'll never forget it, watching those girls who I’d just done ‘For Colored Girls’ with, but they're continuing on with their acting program, so they're in this production, and I'm not,” she said.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2024

“I attend the West Virginia Colored Institute, ma’am.”

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson