African American history

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• SOURCE: Radio Open Source
  7/15/2021
  

  Daphne Brooks on Truth-Telling Music

  African American Studies scholar Daphne Brooks tells the back stories of Black women in music and the cultural impact of their songs. 

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• SOURCE: In These Times
  7/15/2021
  

  Learn Lessons about Movement Building from Radical Black Women

  by Keisha N. Blain, Premilla Nadasen and Robyn C. Spencer

  Barbara Ransby facilitates a roundtable collaborative essay about the role of women in building radical movements for justice in Black communities encompassing social welfare, economic security, police accountability, women's liberation and more. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/21/2021
  

  Before Nikole Hannah-Jones, Howard U. Professor Sterling Brown was a Lightning Rod for Right-Wing Outrage

  by Carole Emberton

  Sterling Brown also engendered political opposition and debate about what constitutes U.S. history when he tried to center the narrative on the diverse experiences of Black Americans.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/19/2021
  

  Gloria Richardson and Black Women’s Intellectual History

  by Robert Greene II

  Gloria Richardson became an unusual leader of the civil rights movement as an older woman activist, and her changing views on movement strategy are important to scholars today. 

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• 7/18/2021
  

  The 1906 Decision in Hodges v. United States Shows the Error of Leaving Fundamental Rights to the States

  by William H. Pruden III

  The Court ruled that the 13th Amendment did not create a federal right to fairly contracted labor, and called for Black workers to "take their chances with other citizens in the states where they should make their homes," despite the plain determination of those citizens to oppress and expolit them.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/14/2021
  

  From the Labor Struggles of the 1930s to Today, the Highlander School has Sought to Make America More Equitable

  by Jelani M. Favors

  From the Great Depression through the Civil Rights era and beyond, Myles Horton's Highlander Folk School was a rare interracial space for political organizing. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/12/2021
  

  Black Power and Anti-Carceral State Infrastructure

  by Joshua L. Crutchfield

  Mutual aid groups that formed in response to the COVID pandemic echo the ways that participants in the Black Freedom movement sought to create alternative instititutions for the benefit of communities and individuals that did not reinforce the power of the police. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/8/2021
  

  Black Health Care, Black Art: A Texas Perspective

  by Celeste Henery

  Oral histories from Black health care practitioners shed important light on how they and the communities they served understood health and treatment, and speak to the ongoing problems Black Americans report in accessing good and compassionate care. 

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• SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  7/8/2021
  

  Obituary: Henry Parham, Last of A Black Unit that Fought at D-Day, Dies at 99

  “'We landed in water up to our necks,' Mr. Parham said, recalling a shorter man in his unit who had to be carried onto the beach because the water was over his head and he couldn’t swim."

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  6/30/2021
  

  Looking for Nat Turner

  Christopher Tomlins' new book takes seriously the apocalyptic Christianity of Nat Turner, viewing it not as a metaphor for liberation but a key part of how Turner understood freedom. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/26/2021
  

  Scientists Excavating Tulsa Race Massacre Site Unearth Skeleton With Bullet Wounds

  Forensic analysis indicates that human remains discovered in a mass grave included a Black man who had been shot multiple times, as efforts to document the crimes continue. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  6/29/2021
  

  Blackness and the Bomb

  by Erica X. Eisen

  "Throughout the atomic age, civil defense authorities demanded the active participation of Black citizens whom their measures failed to protect."

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  6/29/2021
  

  The Resurrection of Bass Reeves: Was the Real "Lone Ranger" Black?

  Only recently has popular culture revived interest in Bass Reeves, one of the first Black men to serve as a US Marshal, and the scourge of Texas fugitives. 

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• SOURCE: NextCity
  6/29/2021
  

  How Atlanta’s Public Housing Created Space for Black Women to Organize

  City Planning Professor Akira Drake Rodriguez discusses her research on women's tenant organizing in public housing in Atlanta, which became more important as the city withdrew support for its low income housing program. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/28/2021
  

  This Late Civil Rights Icon's Imprint Is Everywhere Today

  by Peniel E. Joseph

  "Stokely Carmichael's legacy spans the movement for Black power, the push for voting rights in the 21st century and the recent political campaigns that have given voice to those seeking more radical change."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/28/2021
  

  A Maryland Attic Hid a Priceless Trove of Black History. Historians and Activists Saved it from Auction

  The discovery of a trove of documents related to the slavery-related business of a Maryland family was just the beginning, as historians and activists had to raise money to buy them to keep them as a community history resource. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/24/2021
  

  The Unknown History of Black Uprisings

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reviews Elizabeth Hinton's new "America on Fire" and explains how it shakes up established accounts of a "good" and "nonviolent" civil rights movement giving way to protest and violence.

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• 6/27/2021
  

  Escape as Resistance for Enslaved Women during the American Revolution

  by Karen Cook Bell

  Historians have, for too long, failed to recognize how Black women imagined and pursued freedom by escape from slavery during the American Revolution. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/18/2021
  

  The Truth About Black Freedom

  by Daina Ramey Berry

  Observing Juneteenth shouldn't be limited to commemorating a grant of freedom by the government; the deeper history of emancipation is of Black Americans demanding and pursuing freedom for themselves. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/18/2021
  

  Event: History Matters with Annette Gordon-Reed, Historian & Author, “On Juneteenth” (Friday, June 18)

  Jonathan Capehart will host a discussion with Annette Gordon-Reed of her new book "On Juneteenth" on Friday at 12:00 eastern.