Black History

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  6/1/2022
  

  Rescuing Shirley Chisholm's Life from Symbolism

  by Anastasia Curwood

  Writing a biography of the Congresswoman and presidential candidate required working through the distinction between Shirley Chisholm the symbol and the much more complex reality of Shirley Chisholm the woman, to see how big trends in Black history unfolded at a human scale.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/3/2022
  

  How Josephine Baker Challenged Racism in Las Vegas

  by Claytee White

  Josephine Baker's brief stand in 1952 didn't forever break the color line in the city's casinos and clubs, but it did help Black Las Vegans push for enduring change. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2/18/2022
  

  Black Educators Have Long Fought Against Political Suppression of History

  by Keisha N. Blain

  For as long as white politicians have tried to suppress Black perspectives on history and public life, Black educators have worked to make sure those perspectives are heard, and to explain why they matter. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/3/2021
  

  Josephine Baker's Induction to the Pantheon Shouldn't Obscure how Other Black Women Served Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

  by Rachel Anne Gillett

  "Even as White European audiences fell in love with her, Black women in France criticized her and the system that lifted her up."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/17/2021
  

  Black Germans and New Forms of Resistance

  by Tiffany Florvil

  Black activists and intellectuals in Germany have worked to promote knowledge of colonial and Black history as a counter to the entrenched tendency to hide and evade the subject. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  4/29/2021
  

  Mary Seacole and the Politics of Writing Black History in 1980s Britain

  by Margo Williams

  The revival of British interest in the life of Jamaican-Scottish nurse Mary Seacole reflected the rise of a movement by Black British activists to see Black history as a story of struggle, rather than of a color-blind narrative of Britishness. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  4/5/2021
  

  Remembering is Resistance

  by Jessica M. Parr

  Books by Ana Lucia Araujo and Joan Wallach Scott examine the politics of memory and history and explain the stakes of fights over teaching and memorializing oppression. 

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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.