African American history

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/20/2022
  

  Blacks and Jews—Again

  by Michael Eric Dyson

  At a moment of rising authoritarianism in America and the world, it is necessary for Black America and American Jews to recognize antisemitism as a species of white supremacy that threatens both groups. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  11/18/2022
  

  Black Family History Opens New Archives

  by Paula C. Austin, Catherine Nelson and Donna Payne Wilson

  Paula Austin's history of Black Washington depended on the knowledge and memorial work of generations of Black families, who have preserved history that is not kept in traditional archives. 

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• SOURCE: Facing South
  11/15/2022
  

  From the Archives: Bob Maurer on Charles Sherrod and New Communities Farm

  Nearly 50 years ago, activist Robert Maurer reported on the successes and challenges of a Georgia agricultural cooperative conceived as a step toward securing Black economic empowerment in the post-civil rights South. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/16/2022
  

  A New AP Course Advances the Teaching of Race in American History (While the Right Seeks to Restrict It)

  by Michelle A. Purdy

  "The nation’s public schools have long been caught in a tug of war over whether they should be used to conserve or disrupt existing social arrangements."

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  11/9/2022
  

  William Still: Forgotten Father of the Underground Railroad

  by Andrew Diemer

  William Still died in 1902 as one of the most famous and well-respected Black men in America. But since, the quiet nature of his work and his preference to preserve the stories of the individuals he helped to find freedom have diminished his standing among abolitionist heroes. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/3/2022
  

  The 1968 Tuskegee Student Uprising and the Moral Force of the Black University

  by Brian Jones

  "In a moment when Black studies and Black history are widely under attack, it can be useful to remember that Black student activists have historically been at the center of fights to democratize higher education and expand the curriculum."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/2/2022
  

  New Documentary uses Fight for Black Power in Lowndes County, Alabama as Lens on Present

  Vann Newkirk, whose work inspired "Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power" examines how a conservative white minority fought to keep power even after the passage of the Voting Rights Act

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• SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
  10/27/2022
  

  Melvin Rogers: How Black Thinkers Remade America's Political Traditions

  From Douglass to DuBois, African American intellectuals have pushed for the theory of American republicanism to wrestle with the conflict between racial domination and political equality. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/1/2022
  

  Black-Brown Solidarity has been Elusive in Los Angeles

  by Erin Aubry Kaplan

  For decades, the increasing Latino presence in previously Black neighborhoods in South Los Angeles has raised concerns about political representation and hopes for a cross-racial movement for a more just city. Recent leaked city councl tapes show things are far from settled. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  10/26/2022
  

  Kidada Williams Joins Chris Hayes to Talk Reconstruction and Political Violence

  "Ex-Confederates didn't let go of slavery lightly. They did what they could to hold on to it. And so, African-Americans largely had to fight their way out of bondage."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10/26/2022
  

  How Black Landowners in North Carolina are Working to Recover Generational Wealth

  Parts of eastern North Carolina are a living historical counterfactual: Black families there have been more successful than elsewhere in holding title to farm land against the encroachment of industry and discriminatory credit. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/27/2022
  

  The Freedman's Bank Forum Obscures the Institution's Real History

  by Justene Hill Edwards

  Vice President Kamala Harris's recent remarks at the forum enlisted the Freedman's Bank to celebrate public-private partnerships between banks and minority communities. The real history of the Freedman's Bank shows why public-private partnerships and moral uplift are inadequate to promote financial equity. 

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• SOURCE: The Hub
  10/27/2022
  

  Koritha Mitchell Discusses Representation of Racist Violence and "Till"

  Prof. Mitchell and host Karen Hunter discuss who the audience is for "Till" and whether movies about lynching are needed today. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  10/24/2022
  

  Matthew Delmont Discusses the Black American Experience of World War II

  The African American experience of war began before Pearl Harbor, and was always grounded in the imperative of defeating a global fascist movement lest it gain more traction in the United States. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/20/2022
  

  Daniel Smith, One of the Last Children of Enslaved Americans, Dies at 90

  Although it's impossible to know exactly how many children of enslaved people survive, all of those interviewed by author Sana Butler for a 2009 book have sinced passed away, nearly closing a living link to the past. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/20/2022
  

  A Lesson in Humility and Justice

  by Imani Pery

  Margaret Burnham's study of lynching and of the legal sanction given to racist violence stands in a long tradition of African American intellectuals who have recognized the need to study society in order to change it. 

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• SOURCE: BBC
  10/24/2022
  

  The Hidden History of Black Coal Towns

  The New River Gorge is one of the newest National Parks. Beyond natural beauty, the region allows visitors to learn the history of African American coal miners and their communities in West Virginia. 

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• 10/23/2022
  

  Catch these Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass Docs While You Can

  by Walter G. Moss

  Readers have a short time to watch two informative documentaries on American freedom fighters Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. 

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• SOURCE: East Fork
  10/14/2022
  

  Black Mountain: The People Who Fed Me

  by Cynthia Greenlee

  Food and place intersect in the author's efforts to preserve the history of Black Appalachia as tourism-driven gentrification changes western North Carolina. 

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• SOURCE: The Forum
  10/17/2022
  

  The Democrats Haven't Learned the Lessons of the Nation's First Voting Rights Act

  by Ed Burmila

  Beginning with the failure of the Lodge Act in 1890, parties have treated voting rights as just one of many policy priorities competing for space on the agenda and scarce political capital, instead of a basic precondition of functioning democracy. Democrats today are repeating this mistake.