African American history 
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SOURCE: Lawyers, Guns & Money
3/14/2023
Tulsa's Black Wall Street Should be a National Monument
by Erik Loomis
Grassroots pressure to commemorate the site of the Tulsa massacre portends more public recognition of racial violence in American history.
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SOURCE: WNYC
3/14/2023
Anastasia Curwood on Shirley Chisholm's Childhood Heroes
Born in Barbados, Shirley Chisholm moved to Brooklyn as a child. Her biographer discusses how her childhood heroes shaped her political worldview.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/16/2023
How Textbook Publishers are Censoring the Story of Rosa Parks to Sell Books in Florida
The conservative Florida Citizens Alliance, a group allied with the DeSantis administration, has called for rejection of 28 of the 38 texts its members reviewed. One publisher's editing of the story of the Montgomery Boycott illustrates their power.
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3/14/2023
Statement by People for Black History at University of Tennessee-Martin
The leaders of a student movement to resist Tennessee's restrictions on course content charges that their university's faculty senate has failed to give their petition a hearing.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
3/6/2023
Exhibiting the Black Panthers' Ephemera
An exhibition of the radical group's posters illustrates the importance-and difficulty-of documenting political movements that used visual communications through ephemeral media like postering and newspapers.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/8/2023
DeSantis Wants Us to Ignore What Black Children in Florida Need
Historian Marvin Dunn's "Teach the Truth" tours show that Florida's history can't be taught without acknowledging white racism and terrorism.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
3/8/2023
Scholars and Activists Join Open Letter Condemning Political Intrusions on Scholarship and Teaching
An open letter by Black Studies scholars and activists asks why a right-wing political faction has been empowered to hijack the curriculum in Florida and at the College Board, concluding that, far from being "drained of meaning," purged concepts are threatening to entrenched power.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/8/2023
In Chicago, the Political Vibes Echo 1983, but the Politics are Different
by Gordon Mantler
Harold Washington's victory in 1983 to become the city's first Black mayor promised a new multicultural coalition politics. Forty years later, that coalition is discouraged and demobilized, and seems unlikely to challenge the entrenched interests that Washington tried to dislodge from power.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
3/6/2023
The NBA Embraced Blackness in the 1970s—Moral Panic Ensued
Theresa Runstedtler looks at the NBA's key transitional decade as a time when Black players didn't simply change the style of play but demanded fair treatment for the value created by their skilled labor, following the ethos of civil rights and Black Power.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/24/2023
A Different Kind of Unfree Labor Haunts a Houston Suburb
by Ashanté Reese
Texas's convict labor system was a first step in reasserting white dominance over Black labor through criminal law. The discovery of remains of convicted laborers on the site of a former prison farm show the need to reckon with unfree labor after the end of slavery.
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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: London Review of Books
3/1/2023
Review: The Unfinished Business of "Double V"
by Eric Foner
Eric Foner considers recent books on racism in the military in World War II and in Vietnam.
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SOURCE: 19th News
2/23/2023
How Social Media and Community Schools Could Fill in Gaps Teaching Black History
As new restrictive legislation in many states threatens the teaching of African American history, the example of southern Freedom Schools is being followed in local and online communities.
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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: PBS News Hour
2/27/2023
Portraits of 19th C. Black Charlottesville Show Life, Joy
The University of Virginia has begun to acknowledge the labors of enslaved people who built the campus. John Edwin Mason is curating an exhibition of photographs commissioned by Black Charlottesvillians showing how they saw themselves.
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SOURCE: CBS News
2/25/2023
Black History Month Traces to a Key Meeting in a Chicago YMCA
Chicago historian Shermann Thomas, aka "Dilla," makes the Wabash Avenue YMCA where educator Carter Woodson was inspired to launch Negro Achievement Week a centerpiece of his guided tours of Black Chicago's history.
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SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
2/26/2023
How (Some) of the Hip Hop Generation Learned Black History
Historian Pero Dagbovie traces shifts in hip hop's political messages and says that, to some extent the glorification of materialism replaced a focus on Black history and politics as the genre developed.
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SOURCE: WUFT
2/24/2023
UF Faculty and Students Host "Can't Ban Us" Black History Teach-In
“The state of Florida has banned aspects of African American studies within grades K-12 and are now trying to further ban higher education students from learning critical ways to understand how race and racism works,” [historian Paul] Ortiz said.
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SOURCE: TIME
2/23/2023
Black Power is a Love Story
by Dan Berger
While the movement is popularly associated with anger, love was the emotional force that enabled activists to struggle for justice against powerful opposition.
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2/26/2023
What Airports Can Tell Us About Histories of Regional Development
by Eric Porter
From the perspective of travelers, airports appear as generic "non-places." But for people who aren't just passing through—entrepreneurs, activists, and especially workers—their particularity makes them sites of struggle that shape the life of a region. Historians have much to learn from them, too.
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