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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/2/2023
Ben Vinson III, Historian of the African Diaspora in Latin America in as Howard U. President
Vinson, who attended high school in Washington D.C. and was a dean at the George Washington University, returns to the District with goals of vaulting the university into the top ranks of research institutions.
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SOURCE: The Nation
4/18/2023
Review: The Paradoxes of CLR James
by Gerald Horne
A new biography by John L. Williams examines the connections that the pathbreaking radical intellectual CLR James drew between the Haitian revolution and global struggles for emancipation in the 20th century.
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SOURCE: Inquest
3/23/2023
Martin Sostre's Vision of Collective Liberation
by Garrett Felber
Martin Sostre's refusal to allow the New York prison system to subject him to invasive and violating searches showed how he placed bodily autonomy at the center of a radical critique of racial oppression. At what would be his 100th birthday, his legacy is considered.
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SOURCE: Forward
2/27/2023
Philosopher Lewis Gordon's Impact on Black Jewish History
Gordon said for him, “Black consciousness links to all oppression and that’s exactly the kind of Jewishness I was raised in. It was always explained as connected to the ethical, the political dimensions of what it was to be Jewish."
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SOURCE: Seattle Times
3/1/2023
Quintard Taylor's Black Past Project Fights Erasure of History
The Seattle Times editorial board praises the web-based library, now 16 years old, founded by a University of Washington professor.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
2/28/2023
Conversations in Black Studies
Komozi Woodard, Jeanne Theoharis and Robyn Spencer-Antoine discuss the 10th anniversary of an important monthly discussion series hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York.
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SOURCE: 19th News
1/12/2023
Anastasia Curwood on New Shirley Chisholm Bio
By framing Chisholm as a person with a life history, Curwood elevates knowledge of the New York congresswoman from a "first major party candidate" to a political theorist and visionary.
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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.