African American history

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• SOURCE: National History Center and Woodrow Wilson Center
  9/17/2021
  

  Traveling Black: Mia Bay Joins the Washington History Seminar, September 20

  Mia Bay's new book "places the right to unrestricted mobility at the center of the twentieth-century black freedom struggle." She addresses the Washington History Seminar on Monday, September 20 at 4:00 EDT. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/10/2021
  

  Buffalo Soldiers Statue Unveiled at West Point

  The Buffalo Soldiers held a confounding position in the military, teaching cavalry skills to white cadets at West Point while housed in segregated barracks, and fighting white supremacy within the army while also taking part in the military campaign of conquest against Native Americans. 

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• SOURCE: Click on Detroit
  9/14/2021
  

  Detroit Historical Society Launches Interactive Walking tour of Historic Black Bottom District

  Black Bottom was a predominately Black neighborhood in Detroit that was demolished for redevelopment in the late 1950s, and was replaced with the Lafayette Park district and I-375.

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• SOURCE: AV Club
  9/13/2021
  

  Ken Burns's "Muhammad Ali" Well-Crafted, But Not Groundbreaking

  Ken Burns has an irresistable subject for his latest project. The problem isn't the quality of his film, but that so many others have gotten there first. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/14/2021
  

  Black American Educators: New Laws Silence Us

  Historians of education and civil rights suggest that Black teachers may be justified in fearing that new content-based restrictions on teaching history may subject them to more disciplinary action than their white colleagues. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/12/2021
  

  Protest over Road-Widening Through Black Community Echoes Events of 1967

  “This is where we live, and if you don’t think it’s important, we surely do,” said Ron Chase, 70, who is director of the Gum Springs Historical Society. He was a teenager during his first march along Richmond Highway to protest the road’s conditions.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  9/12/2021
  

  (Review) The Struggle for Black Education: On Jarvis R. Givens’s “Fugitive Pedagogy”

  by Randal Maurice Jelks

  Jarvis R. Givens's new study of the life of Carter G. Woodson emphasizes Woodson's work to advance Black education in an American social setting that was profoundly hostile to Black achievement and equality. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/13/2021
  

  "Negotiated Authenticity" and the Precarious Position of Black Creators in Television History

  "Since its invention, television has shaped this country’s self-image. To the extent that we share notions of “normal,” “acceptable,” “funny,” “wrong,” and even “American,” television has helped define them. For decades, Black writers were shut out of the rooms in which those notions were scripted."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/13/2021
  

  Jelani Cobb on Derrick Bell: The Man Behind Critical Race Theory

  Derrick Bell's frustrations with the limits of liberal individualism in civil rights jurisprudence pushed him to develop the important critique of institiutional racism in the law. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  9/4/2021
  

  House Hunting While Black: Racism Sabotages the American Dream

  by Keisha N. Blain

  "The current rate of mortgage denials — and the interrelated patterns of housing discrimination and exclusion — is rooted in American history. Discrimination against Black Americans applying for mortgage loans is not new."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  9/8/2021
  

  What Is Owed: The Limits of Darity and Mullen's Case For Reparations

  by William P. Jones

  A historian argues that a recent and influential book calling for reparations could strengthen its case by considering the arguments made by historians about the connections of American slavery to other manifestations of racism. What's needed is to link reparations to a global overturning of racial inequality.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/8/2021
  

  The Discursive Power of the Pittsburgh Courier and the Black Press

  by Adam Lee Cilli

  The influential Black newspaper's publisher Robert L. Vann has been criticized as a self-promoting tribune of the Black bourgeoisie. A historian argues he should be reconsidered as a pragmatist building alliances in a time of upheaval for Black America. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/7/2021
  

  Technology Enables the Exploration of the Work of the First Black American Painter with International Recognition

  "'Conservation never gets old,' says conservator Laura Hartman. There's always an aha! moment.' In this one, when the painting was turned horizontally, x-rays showed another composition underneath. Two draped figures in a landscape."

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• SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
  9/1/2021
  

  The Last House in Historic Rosewood, Florida May Become a Museum

  “It’s a place that needs to be remembered,” said Lizzie Jenkins, 82, whose aunt escaped the massacre. “That house is part of who I am.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/6/2021
  

  Dawn Turner Looks Back on Her ’70s Girlhood, and Those Who Got Left Behind

  "In episodic chapters that read like self-contained short stories woven together into a whole, Turner seeks to understand how three Black girls with very similar aspirations ended up with wildly divergent fates."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/1/2021
  

  Black Women and Civil War Pensions

  by Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr.

  Widows and surviving children of Black veterans of the Civil War used their status as pensioners to claim belonging in the nation, but authorities frequently allowed notions of respectability rooted in white supremacy to undermine them. 

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• SOURCE: Biloxi Sun-Herald
  9/2/2011
  

  Ida Floods Another Historically Black Gulf Community

  The Forest Heights neighborhood of Gulfport, Mississippi was redeveloped in the 1960s as one of the first racially integrated developments promoting home ownership. Like the rest of historically Black north Gulfport, it is threatened by more frequent flooding.

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  8/30/2021
  

  Why Hip Hop Conquered the World: The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip Hop and Rap Drops

  The new anthology "tells the story of American history from 1979 to 2013 through the eyes of the young Black Americans who changed it profoundly."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/28/2021
  

  The "Leesburg Stockade Girls" Locked Up in Georgia in 1963

  15 girls aged 12-15 were locked up in appalling conditions, for 45 days or more, and often without their families' knowledge, in southwest Georgia in 1936. This is their story.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/27/2021
  

  The "Candyman" Reboot Subverts Cinematic Tropes of Black Suffering

  Director Nia DaCosta, with co-writers Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, has turned the problematic racial framing of its predecessor on its head, and casts critical light on the treatment of Black characters throughout the history of film.