Black History

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/30/19
  

  50 Years of Affirmative Action: What Went Right, and What It Got Wrong

  A look back through the decades shows what went right in the early years of affirmative action in college admissions, but also what can go wrong even with the best of intentions.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/26/19
  

  The danger of denying black Americans political rights

  by Kellie Carter Jackson

  Without access to political rights, violence becomes a crucial tool in the fight for freedom.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  3/8/19
  

  How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All

  by Martha S. Jones

  Theirs was a unique brand of politics crafted at the crossroads of racism and sexism.   

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  3/6/19
  

  Exodus: Black people fled the South in droves more than a century ago, seeking true freedom

  Slavery and the Great Migration are but two of the 13 mass movements of Black people that changed the nation, according to Schomburg Center Historians. 

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  3/6/19
  

  Students Unearth Black History at Green-Wood Cemetery

  In restoring a neglected corner of Green-Wood Cemetery, in Brooklyn, students found fragments of information about life in nineteenth-century New York.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/6/19
  

  Policing black Americans is a long-standing, and ugly, American tradition

  by Vanessa Holden and Edward E. Baptist

  A new database of all the fugitive slave ads from U.S. and colonial history reveal how white Americans trained and incentivized themselves to police black Americans’ movements.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/25/19
  

  Wyatt Tee Walker: Chief strategist for Martin Luther King Jr. in the struggle for civil rights

  by Taylor McNeilly

  Walker was hailed as “one of the keenest minds of the nonviolent revolution” by none less than King himself.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/22/19
  

  Timothy Thomas Fortune: A Great, Forgotten Black Radical

  by Adam Sewer

  Timothy Thomas Fortune isn’t a household name, but he had a profound influence on the struggle for civil rights.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/21/19
  

  Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts

  A Tufts University project seeks to make “history more visible” — from slavery to Black Lives Matter — with a map of historic African-American sites in Boston and beyond.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  2/21/19
  

  In Search of George Washington Carver’s True Legacy

  The famed agriculturalist deserves to be known for much more than peanuts  

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/20/19
  

  Rethinking Black History Month in Germany

  by Tiffany Florvil

  This year will mark the 30th anniversary of the annual Black History Month celebrations in Berlin, which became a fixture in the Black German community. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  Accessed 2/12/19
  

  "Black Perspectives" Features Online Roundtable on Chris Tinson’s Radical Intellect

  Featuring articles from Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Kim Gallon, and Fred Carroll.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/6/19
  

  Silencing Black Women in the White Courtroom

  by Denise Lynn

  Ruby McCollum’s case is part of the long history of the carceral state’s heavy-handed and unjust policing of Black women.

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• 2/10/19
  

  Why the Congress of Racial Equality Has Been Forgotten – And Why It Still Matters Today

  by L.E.J. Rachell

  We need to go back to CORE to have a better understanding of the ongoing antiracist movement.

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• 2/3/19
  

  Sleeping Giant: When Public Workers Awake

  by Leon Fink

  What W.E.B. Du Bois and American labor history can teach us about the government shutdown's end. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/23/19
  

  Inside the Kingdom of Hayti, ‘the Wakanda of the Western Hemisphere’

  by Marlene Daut

  With “Black Panther” receiving multiple Oscar nods, it’s time to look at the closest thing to Wakanda that has existed: the Kingdom of Hayti.

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• SOURCE: WDTN
  12-11-2018
  

  Ohio Lawmakers seek tax dollars to document 400 years of African American history

  The two year study would delve into the depths of African American history and provide insight into their accomplishments and tribulations.

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• SOURCE: The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)
  12-11-2018
  

  The Civil Rights Movement for Intellectual Change

  by Joshua Clark Davis

  More than half a century since the 1960s, scholars and citizens alike continue to grapple with how our country should remember the civil rights movement.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Pennsylvanian
  12-9-2018
  

  Penn used bodies of black people as teaching tools in the 1800s, student research reveals

  The more the students dug into the archives the more ties they found between Penn and slavery. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  12-5-2018
  

  New York City has only a few statues of historic women. This pioneering African American will be the next

  City officials say they will erect a statue of political pioneer Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to Congress.