Black History

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  2/26/20
  

  A New Film Series Teases Out the Complex History of Black Heroines On Screen

  The series, entitled It's All in Me: Black Heroines, runs through March 5 at MoMA.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/19/29
  

  Seeing Black History in Context

  by Erin Aubry Kaplan

  It’s the perfect time to get real about America’s shortcomings.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/14/20
  

  There Have Been 10 Black Senators Since Emancipation

  by Eric Foner

  Elected 150 years ago, Hiram Revels was the first.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/12/20
  

  For hundreds of years, enslaved people were bought and sold in America. Today most of the sites of this trade are forgotten.

  by Anne C. Bailey and Dannielle Bowman

  A powerful photoessay that is the latest article from the 1619 Project. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/11/20
  

  2 New Books Examine the the History of Black Travel

  The New York Times reviews OVERGROUND RAILROAD: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor and DRIVING WHILE BLACK: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin.

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• SOURCE: Food and Wine
  2/6/20
  

  The Difference Between Yams and Sweet Potatoes Is Structural Racism

  The confusion goes all the way back to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/4/20
  

  Black Perspectives Hosts Online Forum on HBO’s Watchmen This Week

  by Ahmad Greene-Hayes

  The forum will offer pieces from scholars in African American religious studies who think critically about the show and its engagement with politics, performance, and African American religions in the early twentieth-century South, specifically in Tulsa, after the 1921 massacre.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/10/10
  

  Lynching preachers: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence

  by Malcolm Brian Foley

  Religion was no barrier for these white murderers, as I’ve discovered in my research on Christianity and lynch mobs in the Reconstruction-era South. White preachers incited racial violence, joined the Ku Klux Klan and lynched black people.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  2/6/20
  

  Carrying Community: The Black Midwife’s Bag in the American South

  by Cara Delay

  The policing of midwives’ bags and what was in them was central to the mission that would ultimately destroy black women’s traditional health networks. 

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  2/8/20
  

  Carter G. Woodson and the History of Black History Month

  Since Woodson's death in 1950, the organization that he founded, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History -- now called the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) -- has fought to keep his legacy alive.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/7/20
  

  The Pioneering Black Historian Who Was Almost Erased From History

  Remembering Delilah L. Beasley, an Oakland Tribune columnist who documented black pioneers in California.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/6/20
  

  The English history of African American English

  by Shana Poplack

  Many of the features stereotypically associated with contemporary African American Vernacular English have a robust precedent in the history of the English language.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/31/20
  

  How Black Lives Matter Is Changing What Students Learn During Black History Month

  What started locally in Seattle in 2016, inspired by a federal investigation into the higher rate of suspensions of black students compared to their white peers, has grown into a nationwide organizing effort.

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• SOURCE: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  2/1/20
  

  The challenge of teaching black history: sifting truth, myth, bias

  Featuring Morehouse College history professor Frederick Knight. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Times (AP)
  1/25/20
  

  Marker will honor civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer

  Research for the project was led by a Mississippi Valley State University student and history professor C. Sade Turnipseed.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/17/20
  

  African Americans and Africa: A New Book about Black America’s Relationship with the Continent

   An interview with author Nemata Blyden about her latest book. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/14/19
  

  The fiercest federal lawman you never knew — and he was African American

  Bass Reeves is finally getting his due in popular culture.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  11/22/2019
  

  The Black Shoals: A New Book Theorizing Formations of Black and Native Studies

  by J. T. Roane

   An interview with  Tiffany Lethabo King, author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019).

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• 12/22/19
  

  Rodney Reed, A Story That is All Too Familiar

  by Elisabeth Pearson

  Rodney Reed fits this pattern of injustice because he was sentenced to death while potentially exonerating evidence was ignored. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/2/19
  

  Black Workers and Consumers in the Long Civil Rights Movement

  by Aimee Loiselle

  Historian Aimee Loiselle discusses Traci Parker's new book Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s.