African American history

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• SOURCE: BBC
  4/5/2020
  

  Madam CJ Walker: 'An Inspiration to Us All'

  A new Netflix series tells the story of Madam CJ Walker - a trail-blazing black female entrepreneur in the early 20th century.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  4/7/2020
  

  Historians Throw Shade at Colorism Conflict in Netflix’s ‘Self Made’ Madam C.J. Walker Series

  Critics of Self Made could not contain their indignation over Walker’s life narrative being twisted into a colorism-fueled cat fight, an early 1900s Real Housewives.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/3/2020
  

  Generations of Rosewood Descendants Keep a Once-Forgotten History Alive

  This photo essay illustrates how a Florida community keeps its history, albeit painful, alive.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/3/2020
  

  After Reparations

  How a scholarship helped — and didn't help — descendants of victims of the 1923 Rosewood racial massacre.

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• SOURCE: Art News
  4/2/2020
  

  David C. Driskell, Tireless Advocate for Black Art History, Is Dead at 88

  Driskell's work, including the famous exhibition "Two Centuries of Black American Art," illustrated the importance of black artists in American art history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/28/2020
  

  2 Women Work to Highlight History of Slaves in Maryland Town

  One woman is a descendant of people who were enslaved in Taneytown for generations. The other woman’s ancestors belonged to the family line of the owner of those slaves.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3/23/2020
  

  Madam C.J. Walker and the Business and Meaning of Black Hairstyles

  In Netflix's new series "Self Made" tells the story of Madam C.J. Walker, who tackled the politics of black hair. More than a century later, the battle still rages on.

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• SOURCE: The Gotham Center for New York City History
  3/23/20
  

  An Interview with Historian Ansley Erickson

  Erickson is the co-editor of Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community, a new book from the Harlem Education History Project.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  3/17/2020
  

  Remembering a Cultural Historian and Hip-Hop Scholar Whose ‘Spady School’ Reshaped the Lives of Penn Students

  “He was committed to this idea of democratization of knowledge, and making it accessible to as many people as possible, not confining oneself to just teaching a course at a university.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/9/2020
  

  The History of Slavery Remains With Us Today

  by Ariela Gross and Alejandro de la Fuente

  Two historians trace how law and institutions developed around anti-black ideology in the Americas.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  3/8/2020
  

  Using History to Provide a Lens Into Today’s Politics

  Vermont’s Rokeby Museum has both exposed and experienced the effects of racism at its preserved historic site on a former sheep farm.

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• SOURCE: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
  3/4/2020
  

  Historian Greg Grandin’s Frontier Thesis and the Ecological Imagination

  by Anthony Chaney

  In his new book, Grandin traces the idea of limitless expansion in American history, and he suggests that the era of that ideology has ended.

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• 3/4/2020
  

  Omohundro Institute and NYT to Live Stream Discussion of 1619 Project on March 6

  "Slavery and the American Revolution: A Historical Dialogue" will continue some of the vigorous discussion surrounding "The 1619 Project."

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• SOURCE: TIME
  2/27/2020
  

  Joyce Ladner Used Her Stories to Raise Awareness of the Civil Rights Movement. Now, She’s Telling Them in a New Way

  “I hope the younger students understand they can do something about conditions they don’t think should exist,” Ladner says. “There’s an activist in all of us if you tap into it.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/29/2020
  

  The Hidden History of Slavery That Surrounds Us

  If in 2020, we agree that all lives matter, then all lives mattered then, too, so we should find a way to demonstrate that. One way is to democratize our landscape.

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• SOURCE: National Museum of American History
  2/27/2020
  

  Pennies and Nickels Add Up to Success: Black Banking Pioneer Maggie Lena Walker

  by Crystal M. Moten

  Maggie Lena Walker was one of the most important Black businesswomen in the nation, and today too few people have heard of her.

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• How Black Culinary Historians Are Rewriting the History of American Food

  Throughout the regions where enslaved Africans were concentrated, certain culinary “common denominators” emerged, Twitty writes in his book. These dishes formed the basis for Southern cuisine and “soul food.”

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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: History.com
  2/20/20
  

  How the Black Power Movement Influenced the Civil Rights Movement

  Even after the Black Power movement’s decline in the late 1970s, its impact would continue to be felt for generations to come.

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• SOURCE: Daily Pennsylvanian
  2/19/20
  

  Institutional racism and minimal recognition: Inside Du Bois’ complicated history at Penn

  Du Bois, a writer, activist, and scholar, was known for being one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which continues to promote equal rights today.