Black History

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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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• 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.