racism

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/4/2019
  

  How racism almost killed women’s right to vote

  by Kimberly A. Hamlin

  Women’s suffrage required two constitutional amendments, not one.

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• SOURCE: AP
  6/2/19
  

  D-Day’s 24 hours changed 20th century, and Europe, forever

  International leaders will gather again this week to honor the dwindling number of D-Day veterans.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/4/19
  

  He Served With D-Day’s Only African-American Combat Unit. His Widow Is Still Fighting for His Medal of Honor

  Waverly Woodson died in 2005 but his widow, Joann Woodson, who turned 90 on May 26, has made it her mission to see that her husband’s heroism is acknowledged.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/6/19
  

  Brazil’s long, strange love affair with the Confederacy ignites racial tension

  by Jordan Brasher

  How did an American debate about racism make its way to Brazil? 

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• 5/5/19
  

  James Byrd, Jr., John William King, and the History of American Lynching

  by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

  We need a historical understanding of how lynchg discourse continues to shape America’s enduring “dialogue on race.”  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/28/19
  

  The centuries-long fight for reparations

  by Ana Lucia Araujo

  There is a long and old tradition of black men and women demanding restitution for the time they were enslaved.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/19
  

  The Poway shooter used an age old terrorist tactic. The media fell for it.

  by Ibrahim Al-Marashi

  The history behind terrorists’ favorite tactic and how we can fight it.

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  4/28/19
  

  The Legacy Of Ida B. Wells And The Struggle For Racial Justice At ‘Ole Miss’

  by Michelle Duster

  Ida B. Wells was a pioneer of data journalism who worked relentlessly to shed light on the brutalities of lynching.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/19
  

  She was captured and enslaved 400 years ago. Now Angela symbolizes a brutal history.

  Angela’s arrival in Jamestown in 1619 marked the beginning of a subjugation that left millions in chains.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/30/19
  

  A brief history of the enduring phony science that perpetuates white supremacy

  Feauturing the reserach of historian Ibram X. Kendi. 

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• 4/28/19
  

  Racism’s Longue Durée: Why the Citizens’ Councils Matter Now

  by Anders Walker

  A review of Stephanie Rolph's new book Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Education
  4/24/19
  

  Taking Down ‘Birth of a Nation’

  Chapman University removes posters from prominent places in its film school after students object to centrality of a work full of racism.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle Review
  4/18/19
  

  Being a Black Academic in America

  Featuring short essays by historians Keisha N. Blain, Marcia Chatelain, Gerald Early, Stefan M. Bradley, and Noliwe M. Rook.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4/18/19
  

  Medal of Honor review sought for minority World War I heroes

  Lawmakers want the Pentagon to take another look at scores of soldiers who may have been denied the nation's highest military honor due to their race or religion.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  4/16/19
  

  Immigration, Race, and Women’s Rights, 1919 and Today

  by Arnold R. Isaacs

  The comparison couldn’t, in many ways, be grimmer or more telling. 

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  4/12/19
  

  The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French Assembly

  One panel of the painting is meant to commemorate the abolition of slavery in France, in 1794, but it perpetuates grotesque racist stereotypes.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/11/19
  

  ‘Not a racist bone in his body’: The origins of the default defense against racism

  by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer

  The rise of the colorblind ideology that prevents us from addressing racism.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/8/19
  

  2 Arrested in Vandalism of Slave Memorial at University of North Carolina

  The memorial is dedicated to slaves and African-American workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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• SOURCE: Time
  4/2/19
  

  How Reconstruction Still Shapes American Racism

  by Henry Lewis Gates, Jr.

  Regardless of its brevity, Reconstruction remains one of the most pivotal eras in the history of race relations in American history —­ and probably the most misunderstood.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  3/31/19
  

  New Orleans mayor to apologise for 1891 lynching of Italian-Americans

  John Fratta, from the Order of the Sons of Italy, says the apology is about making people more aware of the episode - particularly because "they don't teach this in schools".