Black History Month

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• SOURCE: WTOP
  2/21/2022
  

  Howard University Gets $2M Grant to Digitize Archive of Black Newspapers

  The project will create the largest and most accessible archive of historical Black newspaper content in the world. 

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• SOURCE: Union of Concerned Scientists
  2/15/2022
  

  For Black History Month, Honor the Environmental Justice Activism of Hazel Johnson

  Hazel Johnson was pushed to environmental justice activism when her husband's cancer death made her aware of the toll of industrial pollution on her Chicago neighborhood. Today, it remains important to connect environmental protection and social justice.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  2/10/2022
  

  It's Black History Month. We Need to Talk About It

  by Jeremy C. Young

  The honest teaching of American history is under attack across the United States, undermining the goal of Carter G. Woodson, who linked the teaching of Black history to the advancement of multiracial democracy. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/2/2022
  

  Black History Month Reveals the Deception Behind White "Discomfort"

  by Peniel E. Joseph

  "The erroneous narrative that teaching Black history provokes anxiety, discomfort, guilt or anger for White children has insidious roots" in a false consensus that has long suppressed the stories of Americans of color and denied racial oppression.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/1/2022
  

  Black History Month Celebrates Medicine and Health

  Marvin Dulaney, president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) says that the racial health disparities highlighted by the pandemic make this year's focus on medical pioneers and health advocates particularly appropriate. 

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• SOURCE: WTTW
  1/30/2022
  

  New Exhibit Looks to Art as a Tool of Resistance to Anti-Black Violence

  As Leslie Harris explains, the exhibition at Northwestern University incorporates 60 works in various media that show how Black art has been an instrument for communicating history. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/25/2021
  

  How Negro History Week Became Black History Month and Why It Matters Now

  Historian Martha S. Jones traces the lineage of Black History Month from a day promoted by educator Mary Church Terrell to honor Frederick Douglass, through the work of Carter G. Woodson to promote knowledge of Black history, to the present. 

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• 2/28/2021
  

  Racist Zoombombings the Latest Application of Technology by White Supremacists

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  White supremacist keyboard warriors appear to have declared a cyber war against Black History Month.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/19/2021
  

  Five Myths About Black History

  by Keisha N. Blain

  From slavery to emancipation, the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, Brown v. Board of Education, and Black Power, widespread partial knowledge of Black history shows that school curricula need to do more to connect the history of Black Americans to the nation's history. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/10/2021
  

  A Forgotten Black Founding Father

  by Danielle Allen

  The figure of Black abolitionist Prince Hall has been discussed for his advocacy for abolition in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but there remains a deeper work of historical reconstruction to understand his connections to family, community and civil society in the founding era. 

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• SOURCE: Medium
  2/16/2021
  

  Why Fred Hampton Needs to Be on Your Kids’ American History Syllabus

  Writer and poet Scott Woods developed a political consciousness watching a 1971 documentary on the assassination of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. He was prepared to be disappointed by the new "Judas and the Black Messiah" but argues the film tells a story that is more important than ever.

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• SOURCE: Vermont Public Radio
  2/15/2021
  

  'Trying To Reckon Honestly': Dartmouth Prof. On The Evolution Of Black History Month

  Dartmouth professor Matthew Delmont discusses the growth and development of Black History Month and the need to understand Black history as integral to the whole of American history. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  2/1/2021
  

  Historically Speaking: 400 Souls—A Conversation with Ibram Kendi and Keisha N. Blain – Tuesday, 2/2

  Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain will join the NMAAHC for a discussion of their new book "400 Souls." 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  2/28/2020
  

  Website Aims to Highlight Hidden Figures in Black History

  Historian Matthew Delmont's website Black Quotidian features profiles of hundreds of African Americans taken from black newspapers mostly between the 1900s and the 1980s.

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• SOURCE: Oxford University Press Blog
  2/19/20
  

  Nine books to read for Black History Month

  It is impossible to fully grasp American history without black history.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  2/18/20
  

  Six historians weigh in on the biggest misconceptions about black history

  Featuring Shennette Garrett-Scott, LaGarrett King, Sowande Mustakeem, Douglas J. Flowe, Jason Allen, and Dale Allender. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/19/29
  

  Seeing Black History in Context

  by Erin Aubry Kaplan

  It’s the perfect time to get real about America’s shortcomings.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  2/8/20
  

  These 19 black women fought for voting rights

  by Nsenga K. Burton

  Featuring historians Jennifer D. Williams, Michelle Duster

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  2/8/20
  

  Carter G. Woodson and the History of Black History Month

  Since Woodson's death in 1950, the organization that he founded, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History -- now called the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) -- has fought to keep his legacy alive.

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• SOURCE: The Dialog
  2/2/20
  

  Black History Month has a little known Catholic history as well

  by Shannen Dee Williams

  In 1949, famed Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes celebrated Negro History Week (the precursor to Black History Month) with members of the Oblate Sisters of Providence and their students at the all black and Catholic St. Alphonsus School.