African American history

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/13/2020
  

  A History of the Newly Resurgent 'Black National Anthem'

  The influence of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" on Black culture over more than a century has been immeasurable.

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• SOURCE: Eater
  7/10/2020
  

  ‘If You Want to Experience Liberation, Black Women Must Be at the Table’

  From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Black Lives Matter movement, Black women have made food a central part of protest.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/13/2020
  

  A Century After a Race Massacre, Tulsa Finally Digs for Suspected Mass Graves

  The excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery, delayed for months by the pandemic, begins Monday morning.

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• SOURCE: The Morning Call
  7/9/2020
  

  Black Lives Matter Movement Prods Bethlehem and Other Districts to Review How History is Taught

  Last weekend, protestors in Allentown, PA demanded that the school district mandate a Black history curriculum.

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• SOURCE: WTOP
  7/7/2020
  

  Historical Association Schools Teachers on White House History

  Over 200 teachers in the DC area are learning about White House history this week, through a five-day online program presented by the White House Historical Association.

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• SOURCE: 303 Magazine
  7/9/2020
  

  Historian Adrian Miller on Denver’s Underrepresented Legacy of Black Culinary Excellence

  Miller's upcoming book "Black Smoke" is set to be released in Spring 2021.

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• SOURCE: Market Watch
  7/8/2020
  

  ‘If I tell people about what happened, I honor my ancestors.’ How the Pandemic is Helping a Slavery Historian Develop a K-12 Lesson Plan on African-American History

  Non-academic historians step in to preserve stories that would otherwise be lost.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  7/6/2020
  

  The Legacy of Black Lives Matter

  How does Black Lives Matter connect to previous civil rights efforts? What makes it unique? In this interview, historian Keisha N. Blain answers that and more.

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• 7/12/2020
  

  A Letter to America: Why We Need a New History Education

  by Linda Morse

  Let us get busy: history teachers must change the world!

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• 7/12/2020
  

  The Right to Breathe Free: A Showdown Over Race and Nature (Part II)

  by Douglas C. Sackman

  Over time American nature has been retrofitted with an infrastructure of racism, one that gives some people open access to land, clean water, and good air while constricting the access of others to these vital natural resources, or takes them away altogether.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/7/2020
  

  Just How Little U.S. Students Learn About African American History — And Five Steps to Start to Change That

  Leslie T. Fenwick and Chike Akua discuss anti-racist curriculums and provide five ways that K-12 and higher education administrators, teachers and students can begin to educate themselves on this subject.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  6/29/2020
  

  A Monument to Our Shared Purpose

  by Allen C. Guelzo and James Hankins

  The Freedmen’s Memorial in Washington embodies not white supremacy, but African-American agency and cooperative struggle.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/1/2020
  

  Celebrating 50 Years of Essence as a Black Women’s Archive

  by Jacinta R. Saffold

  "For the last 50 years, Essence Magazine has consistently found innovative approaches to archiving Black women’s lives by immortalizing our intellect, literature, and culture on glossy pages," writes Jacinta R. Saffold.

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• SOURCE: Florida Phoenix
  7/1/2020
  

  A Push to Make Black History Classes a College Graduation Requirement in FL is Mostly Talk but no Action

  Right now, Florida law requires African American history to be taught at K-12 public schools, though some schools may not be teaching it.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/1/2020
  

  ‘A Conflicted Cultural Force’: What It’s Like to Be Black in Publishing

  When historian Kerri K. Greenidge was trying to publish her book on William Trotter, publishers responded with "who was going to read a book about a Black man that nobody had ever heard about?"

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• SOURCE: NJ.com
  7/1/2020
  

  Did Rutgers Find The Perfect President For 2020? Meet Jonathan Holloway, Black Historian.

  On Wednesday, the student of the past makes history himself by becoming the first Black president of Rutgers University, founded in 1766.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/1/2020
  

  Boston To Remove Statue Depicting Abraham Lincoln With Freed Black Man At His Feet

  The statue should be moved into a museum, historian Ibrahim Sundiata says.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/26/2020
  

  We Insist: A Century Of Black Music Against State Violence

  Like music itself, this spirit of resistance takes many shapes, but has never been silenced.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/26/2020
  

  The Asian American Response to Black Lives Matter Is Part of a Long, Complicated History

  “Asian Americans owe so much of their presence in this country to the Black struggle for freedom — from birthright citizenship to the ability to tell our stories in education and the culture to the civil rights we enjoy,” says author Jeff Chang.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/26/2020
  

  A Debate Over Identity and Race Asks, Are African-Americans ‘Black’ or ‘black’?

  For proponents of capitalizing black, there are grammatical reasons — it is a proper noun, referring to a specific group of people with a shared political identity, shaped by colonialism and slavery.