Black History 
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SOURCE: The Guardian
10/14/2020
The Real Black History? The Government Wants To Ban It
by Priyamvada Gopal
Tory attacks on "victim narratives" in the history curriculum defend entrenched power and ignore the fact that Black British histories are about the power of protest and activism to make social change.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
9/13/2020
Black Lives Matter But Slavery Isn’t Our Only Narrative
by Aretha Phiri and Michelle M. Wright
"Black folks are astonishingly diverse in their cultures, histories, languages, religions, so no single definition of Blackness is going to fit everyone. When we fail to consider this, we effectively leave many Black people out of the conversation."
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SOURCE: ColorLines
8/26/2020
The Great White Heist (The Other Reason For Reparations)
Slavery is the usual argument for reparations. But there’s another rationale.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
6/8/2020
Using MLK to Quell Outrage Distorts His Legacy
by Jeanne Theoharis
King has much to say about our contemporary moment, about the persistence of police abuse and the power of disruption, which may account, at least partly, for why this aspect of his politics is considerably less recognized.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
3/6/2020
A 1963 Klan Bombing Killed Her Sister and Blinded Her. Now She Wants Restitution.
Sarah Collins Rudolph, who survived the 1963 church bombing that killed her sister and three other girls, wants restitution and an apology for what she’s suffered.
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SOURCE: NPR
2/29/2020
The Cruel Story Behind The 'Reverse Freedom Rides'
This episode of the NPR podcast "Code Switch" discusses the forgotten history of a segregationist scheme.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
3/2/2020
Experience 1930s Europe Through the Words of Two African American Women
by Ethelene Whitmire
In the pages of the “Chicago Defender,” the cousins detailed their adventures traversing the continent while also observing signs of the changing tides.
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SOURCE: Associated Press
2/28/2020
Website Aims to Highlight Hidden Figures in Black History
Historian Matthew Delmont's website Black Quotidian features profiles of hundreds of African Americans taken from black newspapers mostly between the 1900s and the 1980s.
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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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