African American history

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  1/22/2021
  

  Hank Aaron Dies at Age 86

  The baseball Hall of Famer and one-time home run leader died at age 86 on January 22. Here, watch his record-breaking 715th home run, as announced by broadcasting legend Vin Scully.

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• SOURCE: History
  1/20/2021
  

  How Tuskegee Airmen Fought Military Segregation With Nonviolent Action

  Alan Osur and Todd Moye help tell the story of the efforts of the Tuskegee Airmen to integrate military recreational facilities in 1944. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/18/2021
  

  Warnock’s Election Reminds Us that Black Churches are Vital to Democratic Success

  by Robert Greene II

  Democratic politicians must recognize the historical role of Black churches not just as gathering places where visiting politicians may speak to voters, but as organizing spaces where political agendas are formed. Dems who wish to emulate Rev. Warnock's victory need to embrace Black churches in a deep way.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/21/2021
  

  Georgia’s New Senators will Write the Next Chapter in Black-Jewish Relations

  by Jeff Melnick

  The history of the Leo Frank trial and lynching shows that, while both groups have faced prejudice and discrimination, "the glory of Black-Jewish relations has always been more aspirational than achieved." Georgia's two new senators have a chance to advance a coalition for progress and equity.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/17/2021
  

  The ‘Whitewashing’ of Black Wall Street

  Black business owners in the Greenwood district of Tulsa argue that the city's redevelopment plans for the area will erase the history of the 1921 race massacre, even as that history has begun to be recovered. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/10/2020
  

  Black Southerners are Wielding Political Power that was Denied their Parents and Grandparents

  While the voter mobilization efforts that tipped Georgia's senate races to the Democrats have been much-discussed, they capitalized on a long-term shift in the Black population to the urban and suburban south, a "reverse great migration" that will be politically consequential for years to come. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/8/2021
  

  We Need a Second Great Migration

  by Charles M. Blow

  Times Columnist Charles Blow relocated from New York to Atlanta and says that American democracy would be healthier if younger African Americans migrated en masse to the South. 

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• 1/10/2020
  

  Black Women Have Been Important Party and Electoral Organizers for a Century

  by Alison M. Parker

  Black women's political organizing was a key to Joe Biden's victory and the Democratic Senate victories in Georgia; these episodes are part of a long historical tradition of activists using partisan politics to press for racial and gender equality. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  1/7/2021
  

  'Another Milestone in the Long, Long Road.' Rev. Raphael Warnock's Georgia Senate Victory Made History in Multiple Ways

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  Historians including Adam Domby and Kali Nicole Gross relate the symbolic and political significance of Rev. Raphael Warnock's victory in Georgia's senate runoff. But that history suggests gains in Black political power will face backlash, warns Carol Anderson. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/3/2021
  

  Ebenezer Baptist: MLK’s Church Makes New History In Georgia’s Senate Runoff

  Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church was an incubator of the fight for voting rights; its current pastor seeks election as Georgia's U.S. Senator.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  1/4/2021
  

  Georgia's Rural Black Voters were Ignored and Suppressed. Now they Might Flip the Senate

  Takeo Spikes, a native of Washington County, Georgia, retired from the NFL to earn and MBA and serves on the board of the New Georgia Project. He says that Black Georgians are realizing their power at the polls after decades of vote suppression and political discouragement. 

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• SOURCE: WDET
  12/31/2020
  

  Michigan State University Launches Online Database Chronicling North-Atlantic Slave Trade

  Enslaved.org is a searchable database that contains millions of records representing enslaved Africans and their descendants.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/2/2021
  

  ‘Year of the Reveal’: Runoffs Follow Pandemic, Protests and a Test of Atlanta’s Promise

  Civil rights historian Calinda Lee places Atlanta at the center of political and economic changes in the south, but whether the change is deep or superficial remains to be seen. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  1/4/2021
  

  The Racial History Of Georgia's Runoff Elections

  Political scientists examine the establishment of Georgia's runoff election procedures as part of historical efforts to limit the power of Black voters in the state. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  12/23/2020
  

  New York Ban on Confederate Imagery is More than a Symbolic Gesture

  by Karen L. Cox

  Confederate symbols have been used by opponents of civil rights in New York; the governor's ban on displaying them on state property makes sense in light of this history.

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• SOURCE: Atlas Obscura
  12/15/2020
  

  The Hidden History of the First Black Women to Serve in the U.S. Navy

  The first cohort of Black women to serve in the US Navy were enlisted as reservists to fill shortages in the service's clerical workforce. At the time, the nation's climate of racism forced them to keep a low profile. A researcher compiling a book about the "Golden Fourteen" mined family history to learn about their service. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/15/2020
  

  Years of Medical Abuse Make Black Americans Less Likely to Trust the Coronavirus Vaccine

  by Dan Royles

  There is a long and continuous history of mistreatment of African Americans by the American medical establishment. This legacy is responsible for many Black Americans' mistrust of a coronavirus vaccine. Good public health practice in vulnerable communities requires addressing this history.

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• SOURCE: Bill Moyers
  12/15/2020
  

  Decades of Inequality Shadow Voter Turnout in Rural Georgia

  A small-town voter drive reveals why only trusted family, friends and local leaders can boost turnout in the Senate runoffs.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/14/2020
  

  Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins, Champion Of Zora Neale Hurston's Hometown, Dies At 102

  Zora Neale Hurston was the most famous resident of Eatonville, Florida, but Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins spent decades organizing and building the town, then fighting to preserve the historical legacy of African American towns from the post-Reconstruction era. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/16/2020
  

  M.L.B. Will Add Negro Leagues to Official Records

  Major League Baseball will include player statistics from the seven African American baseball leagues operating between 1920 and 1948 in the major league record books in recognition of the quality of play and the opportunity denied the best Black players in the game's segregated era.