African American history

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  8/24/19
  

  Bayard Rustin: Prophet Of Freedom, Justice, And Humanity

  by Stephen G. Hall

  Rustin’s work combined a passion for social justice with a firm commitment to LGBTQ and human rights.

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• 8/28/19
  

  The Problem with The Rosa Parks Barbie

  by Andrea S. Johnson

  Rosa Parks wasn't just a tired seamstress with aching feet. The true story of Rosa Parks that historians have worked hard to reconstruct is continually lost in public consumption.

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• SOURCE: Diverse Education
  8/23/19
  

  Historian Carl Suddler's New Book Probes Black Youth, Criminal Justice

  Dr. Carl Suddler, an assistant professor of history at Emory University, puts the intersection of race, gender, youth and incarceration under a searing spotlight in his new book, Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/24/19
  

  Horace Pippin: From War to Peace Exhibit Showcases American History Through the Art of a Black WWI Soldier

  Horace Pippin was a self-taught artist out of necessity, as the society in which he lived had shut most of its doors on him.

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• SOURCE: 13 News
  8/24/19
  

  Virginia Gov. Northam establishes Commission on African American history education

  Governor Northam signed an executive order establishing the Commission on African American History Education on Saturday, August 24.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/18/19
  

  A rural town confronts its buried history of mass killings of black Americans

  100 years after hundreds of African Americans were reportedly killed in Elaine, Arkansas, a memorial is set to bring details of the tragedy to light.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 8/20/19
  

  The Great Land Robbery

  by Vann R. Newkirk II

  A war waged by deed of title has dispossessed 98 percent of black agricultural landowners in America.

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• 8/18/19
  

  The Civil War and the Black West

  by William Loren Katz

  The integral role people of color played in winning the Civil War. 

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• 8/18/19
  

  Bearing Human Cargo: 400 Years Since the Arrival of the First African Slaves in the American Colonies

  by Albinko Hasic

  Although 1619 remains a historic marker, overemphasizing the date or dismissing the long and complicated history of slavery in the Americas would be a mistake.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/25/19
  

  Ebony’s Photo Archive Goes for $30 Million, for Future in Public View

  The vast photo archive of Ebony and Jet magazines has been sold to a group of four major foundations with a promise that it will be available to the public.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/22/19
  

  Memes and Memory: How Anthony Johnson, a Captive African, Became a Right-wing Talking Point

  by Tyler Parry

  Memes are perfect for establishing “Myth-stories,” as they do not ask readers to evaluate the sources and are often shared prolifically.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/16/19
  

  Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here’s Why That Never Happened.

  For a brief moment, the civil rights movement and the space race came together.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/14/2019
  

  Founder Of African American History Museum Discovered Dead

  Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, was discovered on Friday afternoon in the trunk of a car about 3 miles from her home.

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  7/9/19
  

  Why We Need More Black Women In Economics

  by Keri Leigh Merritt

  Recently a group of brilliant, driven, young Black women formed The Sadie Collective, an organization that “seeks to be an answer to the dismal representation of Black women in the quantitatively demanding fields such as public policy, economics, data analytics, and finance.”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/9/19
  

  The Chicago Defender, Legendary Black Newspaper, Prints Last Copy

  For generations of black Americans, The Defender, influential and tough, was a force: “You knew it didn’t happen if it wasn’t in The Defender.”

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  7/9/19
  

  The World-Class Photography of Ebony and Jet Is Priceless History. It's Still Up For Sale.

  by Alison Miller

  The archive’s unquestionable historical value means there’s more than money at stake in the process of finding a new home for it.

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• SOURCE: AP
  7/5/2019
  

  National Trust for Historic Preservation grants $1.6M for places that are part of black history

  Grants, provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are given across four categories: capacity building, project planning, capital, and programming and interpretation.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/6/2019
  

  2019 Belongs to Shirley Chisholm

  A feature film. A monument. Tattoos in her honor. People looking for a hero have found one in this one-woman precursor to today’s progressive politics.

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• SOURCE: US News
  7/7/2019
  

  Kentucky Historians Explore the Role of Slaves in Kentucky's Bourbon Legacy

  In archives across Kentucky, Erin Wiggins Gilliam is on a search for the faces and names of slaves who worked in America's first whiskey distilleries.

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• SOURCE: Time
  7/3/2019
  

  'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?': The History of Frederick Douglass' Searing Independence Day Oration

  Douglass’ message — about America struggling to live up to the lofty goals it set for itself at the founding — continues to be relevant.