African American history

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• SOURCE: Full Front with Samatha Bee
  2/6/19
  

  Video of the Week: "Real Black History"

  Professors Jelani Cobb, Jamilah Lemieux, Mychal Denzel Smith, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, George Wallace, and Walter Naegle are here to remind you that Black History is American History and it doesn't fit in one tweet.

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• SOURCE: AP
  2/12/19
  

  Wisconsin GOP erases Colin Kaepernick from Black History Month Resolution

  Wisconsin Republicans tried to bring their resolution excluding Kaepernick to the floor but fell short of the two-thirds majority they needed after all the chamber’s Democrats voted against the move.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  Accessed 2/12/19
  

  "Black Perspectives" Features Online Roundtable on Chris Tinson’s Radical Intellect

  Featuring articles from Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Kim Gallon, and Fred Carroll.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  2/8/19
  

  Peter Wallenstein Talks About Why White Supremacy “Must Die and Yet Will Not Die”

  Professor Peter Wallenstein explains how the present mess in Virginia connects to the state’s past.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/9/19
  

  Why this year's Black History Month is pivotal

  by Peniel Joseph

  In 2019, slavery's aftermath hovers over contemporary American race relations in deep and profoundly disturbing ways.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/6/19
  

  Silencing Black Women in the White Courtroom

  by Denise Lynn

  Ruby McCollum’s case is part of the long history of the carceral state’s heavy-handed and unjust policing of Black women.

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• 2/10/19
  

  Why the Congress of Racial Equality Has Been Forgotten – And Why It Still Matters Today

  by L.E.J. Rachell

  We need to go back to CORE to have a better understanding of the ongoing antiracist movement.

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• 2/10/19
  

  The American Tourist in Paris: A Retrospective

  by Lauren Jannette

  Although no longer breaking furniture, running out on checks, and throwing racist fits about the evening’s entertainment, Americans remain an integral part of Paris’s continued debates over the benefits and detriments of being one of the world’s largest tourists destinations. 

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• 2/5/19
  

  Feisty Singer Nina Simone Is Back in New Play

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Little Girl Blue drew an engrossing portrait of entertainment history in that era and showed the discrimination African Americans faced.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/31/19
  

  Burins R. Morris on what Carter G. Woodson would want Americans to do for Black History Month

  The official theme of Black History Month 2019, “Black Migrations,” is a fitting one: not only is migration one of today’s most pressing political issues, but it’s also a key part of the annual observance’s own history.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/2/19
  

  When the Suffrage Movement Sold Out to White Supremacy

  by Brent Staples

  Historians like Glenda Gilmore, Martha Jones, Nell Irvin Painter and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn have recently revised the whitewashed depiction of the women’s rights campaign by rescuing black suffragists from anonymity.

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• 2/3/19
  

  Sleeping Giant: When Public Workers Awake

  by Leon Fink

  What W.E.B. Du Bois and American labor history can teach us about the government shutdown's end. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/1/19
  

  How the founder of Black History Month rebutted white racism in a forgotten manuscript

  Carter G. Woodson’s unpublished work was discovered in 2005 by a Howard University history professor.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/1/19
  

  3 ways to improve education about slavery in the US

  by Tiffany Mitchell Patterson

  Textbooks often do a poor job when it comes to teaching students about slavery in the U.S.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/30/19
  

  How Jackie Robinson’s wife, Rachel, helped him break baseball’s color line

  by Chris Lamb

  "She had to live through the death threats, endure the vile screams of the fans and watch her husband get knocked down by pitch after pitch. … She was beautiful and wise and replenished his strength and courage.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/31/19
  

  Reflections on Jackie Robinson's Legacy on His 100th Birthday

  Through images and personal essays by longtime New York Times writers, a vivid look at the man who made baseball truly American.

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• SOURCE: Essence
  1/29/19
  

  The Women’s Suffrage Movement Included More Than Two Women And So Should The Monuments

  by Michelle Duster

  During a time when Black women’s votes are more pivotal than ever, our leaderships and contributions to the Suffrage Movement must be honored.

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• 1/29/19
  

  Were These Enslaved Women Grand Medical Experiments or Guinea Pigs?

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Behind the Sheet is a great success on a number of levels, not just medical, and a four star historical hit.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/25/19
  

  The Green Book’s Black History

  by Brent Staples

  Lessons from the Jim Crow-era travel guide for African-American elites.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/22/19
  

  ‘Green Book’: A movie evokes the crucial guide for black travelers during segregation

  What was the Green Book? For African Americans, its listings could mean the difference between life and death.