African American history

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• 5/24/2020
  

  "The News Will Get Out Soon Enough": Homefront Jim Crow and the Integration of the U.S. Navy

  by Dan C. Goldberg

  Politico reporter Dan Goldberg's new book details how thirteen black men overcame prejudice and indifference to integrate the Navy's officer corps in 1944. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/16/2020
  

  Ida Taught Me

  by Koritha Mitchell

  As the United States seems determined to repeat the horrors of the last turn of the century, I remain grateful for Wells’s example. Here is just some of what she taught me.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  5/19/2020
  

  How the U.S. Navy’s First Black Officers Helped Reshape the American Military

  by Dan C. Goldberg

  The story of the Navy’s first black officers remains little known, overshadowed by the heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen and Patton’s Panthers.

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• SOURCE: Columbus Dispatch
  5/18/2020
  

  Columbus Historian Hits Streets in Search of African American Stories

  Rita Fuller-Yates earned a bachelor's degree in history and worked in corporate America and as a lifestyle columnist. But now she's a fierce avocate for memorializing one of Ohio's black leaders (and the history of African Americans in Columbus) on the grounds of the Statehouse.

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• SOURCE: San Francisco Classical Voice
  5/18/2020
  

  A New Biography of Odetta Reveals a Difficult Life Well Sung

  Ian Zack's biography of the singer Odetta reveals a great deal about the limits racism and sexism imposed on her career and the limited terms on which she was accepted by white audiences.

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• SOURCE: BET
  5/19/2020
  

  A New Documentary On Opera Singer Marian Anderson Is Coming To PBS

  A new PBS documentary will commemorate singer Marian Anderson's voice and her activism.

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• SOURCE: Southern Maryland Chronicle
  5/18/2020
  

  Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture Announces $1 Million In Funding for Preservation Projects

  The Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture (MCAAHC) announces $1 million in available funds for African American preservation projects throughout the state of Maryland.

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• SOURCE: Chicago Teachers Union
  5/19/2020
  

  Zoom Webinar: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Discusses "Race for Profit," May 19, 4:30 PM CDT

  The award-winning historian and public speaker will discuss the relationship between housing policy and racial inequality in the United States

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/14/2020
  

  We Must Not Forget The Jackson State Massacre

  by Robert Luckett

  The killings at Jackson State in 1970 should be a reminder that state-sanctioned violence aimed at the marginalized remains a systemic part of American life. 

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• SOURCE: National Museum of African American History and Culture
  5/14/2020
  

  We Return Fighting: The African American Experience in World War I (Virtual Exhibition)

  This exhibition immerses virtual visitors into a conversation that examines what fighting in the first global war meant for African Americans.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/12/2020
  

  Online Roundtable: Saidiya Hartman’s ‘Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments’

  From May 18-22, a group of five scholars will participate in a roundtable to discuss Hartman's most recent work.

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• SOURCE: Facing South
  5/13/2020
  

  Bakari Sellers on a Life Shaped by the Rural South's Civil Rights Movement

  "One of the things that I put in the book is something that was an integral part of my upbringing: My dad always taught me that heroes walk among us."

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• SOURCE: KOB4
  5/12/2020
  

  Civic Leader Fred L. Davis Dies in Memphis; Marched with MLK

  Davis was a businessman and civic leader who supported the 1968 sanitation workers' strike in Memphis, Tennessee.

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• SOURCE: Charleston Post and Courier
  5/13/2020
  

  On this Day in 1862: Robert Smalls's Daring Escape from Charleston

  Today marks the anniversary of one of the most dramatic episodes in the Civil War--Robert Smalls's escape from slavery in a stolen Confederate naval ship.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/10/2020
  

  In Ahmaud Arbery’s Hometown, Pain, Anger and Pride in a Shared Racial History

  Brunswick, Ga., gained national attention during the civil rights era for the way black and white leaders had worked together to integrate peacefully.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  5/11/2020
  

  Inside Historic Black Bookstores' Fight for Survival against the COVID-19 Pandemic

  For decades, these bookstores have occupied a singular place in the cultural life of black America, says W. Paul Coates, founder and director of Black Classic Press and BCP Digital Printing and father of bestselling author Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/3/2020
  

  We Are Losing a Generation of Civil-Rights Memories

  America’s response to the pandemic harkens back to ugly times in our country’s history. But to recognize that, we need to know our elders’ stories.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/5/2020
  

  What Was Saved

  Sarah Broom's memoir "The Yellow House" reconstructs not only her family’s history in New Orleans but also that larger arc of the black experience in the United States.

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• SOURCE: Chattanooga Times-Free PRess
  5/5/2020
  

  Will Atlanta Child Murders Ever be Solved? Those Close to Case Fear Answer is 'No'

  "Atlanta's Murdered and Missing" concluded Sunday with strong evidence that white supremacists may have been involved in the killings and the disappearances. Families of victims still despair of closure and justice.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  5/5/2020
  

  Coronavirus Is Making The Case For Black Reparations Clearer Than Ever

  by William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen

  America has failed to seize previous chances to eliminate racial inequality and grant black Americans access to the same opportunities as whites.