African American history 
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/30/2023
DeSantis's War on "Woke" Evokes Darkest Parts of Florida's History
by Carol Anderson
Calling DeSantis's agenda a "culture war" obscures the fact that is in fact a war against the marginalized, an effort to narrow the definition of who counts as a Floridian and whom the state will serve and protect, with the right to vote at the center.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
3/30/2023
Gullah Geechee of Sea Islands Fight for their Post-Slavery Legacy
by DeNeen L Brown
The Gullah Geechee people were chosen for enslavement in the Sea Islands because of their experience cultivating rice in Africa, and maintained a distinctive culture with strong African elements through slavery and emancipation. Development and gentrification threaten that legacy today.
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SOURCE: Nashville Tennessean
3/24/2023
Teaching History Without Harsh Truths? Tennessee's Law Demands the Impossible
by David Barber
"When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or our own Gov. Bill Lee and Tennessee’s legislature enact laws to prevent teaching Black history, they are defending white supremacy."
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
3/28/2023
The Jim Crow Reign of Terror
by Eric Foner
While the scope and horror of lynching has recently become acknowleged and memorialized, there is a parallel and more pervasive history, which Margaret Burhnam investigates, of racist terror carried out under color of law.
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SOURCE: Inquest
3/23/2023
Martin Sostre's Vision of Collective Liberation
by Garrett Felber
Martin Sostre's refusal to allow the New York prison system to subject him to invasive and violating searches showed how he placed bodily autonomy at the center of a radical critique of racial oppression. At what would be his 100th birthday, his legacy is considered.
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SOURCE: NPR
3/22/2023
The Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
"It felt like Harriet Tubman's hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth's hand on me pushed me down on another one. History had me glued to the seat." – Claudette Colvin
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SOURCE: The New Republic
3/23/2023
New Books Force Consideration of Reconstruction's End from Black Perspective
Books by Kidada Williams and Mari Crabtree shift attention away from the motives and mentality of white racist terrorists toward the impact on African American cultural, political, and psychological life in the wake of attacks by the Klan and other vigilantes.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
3/21/2023
Historian's Book on 1970s NBA Shows Racial Politics around Basketball Have Always Been Ugly
by Jay Caspian Kang
The decade saw Black players become dominant in the league and assert their rights as skilled workers. Owners pushed back through the media, smearing the players as entitled drug abusers, as historian Theresa Runstedtler's new book explains.
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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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