African American history

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/7/19
  

  Why Popeyes markets its chicken sandwich to African Americans

  by Marcia Chatelain

  Popeyes has long cultivated a black customer base — which has positive and negative ramifications.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/1/19
  

  The Bones of A Former Slave And Black Leader Were Missing — Until A Historian Asked In The Right Place

  Historian Janice Hayes-Williams was just starting out as an amateur local historian when she found out Smith Price had been deeply disrespected.

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• SOURCE: Process History
  10/31/19
  

  African American Women's Work in the Underground Railroad Beyond Harriet Tubman

  by Jazma Sutton

  African American women, arguably the most vulnerable group in antebellum America, used every means at their disposal to escape slavery, liberate family members, assist in others’ self-liberation, and hold on to whatever measure of freedom they had achieved. 

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• 10/31/19
  

  William Loren Katz: Teacher, Author, Editor and Activist (1927-2019)

  by Alan Singer

  William Loren Katz, historian who championed the marginalized, died on October 25, 2019. He was 92 years old.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/23/19
  

  Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right

  The filmmakers pored over books, documents and other research to remind viewers of the woman behind the often distorted legend.

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• SOURCE: Spectrum News
  10/25/19
  

  Nothing Can be Salvaged From Frederick Douglass' Time Capsule

  The city historian said material in the time capsule dates back to 1898, with additional items being added in 1941, but nothing can be salvaged.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/24/19
  

  Ibram X. Kendi Writes Personal Essay on Elijah Cummings' Death and Life Expectancy Inequality

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  Like so many other black men in America, Elijah Cummings died too young.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/23/19
  

  So you want to talk about lynching? Understand this first.

  by Michele Norris

  Let’s face it as the terror and the terrorism it was. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/23/19
  

  No Longer Invisible, An African American Woman’s Journey

  by Ida E. Jones

  In Rosalyn Terborg-Penn direct confrontation with the sexism of some African American male scholars and racism of some white women scholars, she co-founded the Association of Black Women Historians. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/17/19
  

  A white mob attacked Elijah Cummings for integrating a swimming pool. He was 11.

  by Gillian Brockell

  The Maryland congressman, who died Thursday, had a scar on his face for the rest of his life.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/12/19
  

  It was the nation’s largest auction of enslaved people. Now, a search for descendants of the ‘weeping time.’

  Historians Henry Louis Gates Jr. and James Swanson are writing a new account of the notorious 1859 auction of 429 slaves and searching for descendants.

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• SOURCE: AP
  10/5/19
  

  America’s last slave ship could offer a case for reparations

  The history of Meaher and the slave ship Clotilda may offer one of the more clear-cut cases for slavery reparations, with identifiable perpetrators and victims.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/2/19
  

  Black Workers and Consumers in the Long Civil Rights Movement

  by Aimee Loiselle

  Historian Aimee Loiselle discusses Traci Parker's new book Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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• SOURCE: African American Intellectual History Society
  9/30/19
  

  Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics: An Interview with Benjamin Talton

  by Keisha N. Blain

  AAIHS Presdient Keisha N. Blain interviews Benjamin Talton, an associate Professor of History at Temple University, about his new book.  

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  September 30, 2019
  

  The Forgotten History of America’s Worst Racial Massacre

  by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff

  Hundreds of black citizens were killed in Elaine, Arkansas, a century ago this week.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  9/20/19
  

  Enslaved Couples Faced Wrenching Separations, or Even Choosing Family Over Freedom

  by Tera W. Hunter

  Loved ones could be sold away at any time. Here's how married couples coped.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  9/20/19
  

  The Long History of American Slavery Reparations

  by Manisha Sinha

  From the colonial era to today, the bitter legacy of bondage and racial oppression has sparked demands for compensation, with some successes and many broken promises.

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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.