African American history

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/19/2021
  

  Leonard Moore: On Teaching Black History to White People

  Dr. Leonard Moore of the University of Texas, author of the new "Teaching Black History to White People," discusses the challenges of teaching about racism in America, both from conservatives who often demand "colorblindness" and elements of the "woke left" who often demand intellectual safety.

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• SOURCE: Nature
  10/18/2021
  

  How Cigarettes Became a Civil Rights Issue

  Medical Historian Keith Wailoo's new book argues that tobacco companies have systematically targeted Black communities with advertisements for menthol cigarettes and enlisted Black civil rights leaders to oppose regulations on flavored tobacco sales. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/18/2021
  

  As a Black Man and Patriot, Colin Powell Embodied the "Two-ness" of African American Experience

  by Chad Williams

  "In America, being Black and a patriot is – as DuBois hinted at more an a century ago, and as Powell’s life attests to – a very complicated, even painful, affair."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/14/2021
  

  Mary McLeod Bethune Statue is Coming to the Capitol

  Florida legislators unanimously approved Bethune to replace Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith in the Capitol statuary in 2018. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/17/2021
  

  Timuel Black, 102: Historian and Organizer of Black Chicago

  Timuel Black mobilized the political power of the predominantly Black South Side of Chicago, taught others — including a young Barack Obama — how to do the same, and in his final decades compiled oral histories giving voice to his community’s Black working class.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/18/2021
  

  Colin Powell Dies at 84; Career of Military and Diplomatic Leadership Featured Controversial Support for Iraq Invasion

  “I’m the one who presented it on behalf of the United States to the world,” Mr. Powell said, acknowledging that his presentation “will always be a part of my record.”

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  10/15/2021
  

  Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America’s World War II Military (Washington History Seminar, Mon. Oct. 18)

  Thomas Guglielmo joins the Washington History Seminar to discuss his new history of resistance to racism within the military during the second world war. Monday, October 18, 4:00 PM eastern. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/11/2021
  

  The Overlooked LGBTQ History of the Harlem Renaissance

  The new film "Passing," based on Nella Larsen's novel, deals with a female character's crossing of the color line, but also with the openness to same-sex desire the Harlem Renaissance enabled. 

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• SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
  10/13/2021
  

  Timuel Black, Historian and Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 102

  Among those expressing sadness at Mr. Black’s death was Barack Obama, who said “the city of Chicago and the world lost an icon with the passing of Timuel Black."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/10/2021
  

  How a Black Family Got Their Beach Back

  The historic Bruce's Beach case is inspiring social justice leaders and reparations activists to fight for other Black families whose ancestors were also victims of land theft in the United States.

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• SOURCE: Nashville Tennessean
  10/5/2021
  

  The "Critical Race Theory" Ban Makes Teaching Black History Illegal in Tennessee

  by David Barber

  "The real object here is to prevent educators from discussing nearly four centuries of white domination over Black people.­­"

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/3/2021
  

  Is this Lawsuit the Last Hope for Justice for Survivors of the Tulsa Massacre?

  The lawsuit by survivors and their descendants argues that the massacre's effects constitute an "ongoing nuisance," a theory used successfully by the state to sue a pharmaceutical company for the damages of the opioid epidemic.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/1/2021
  

  New "Wonder Years" Revives a 1970s Tactic for Diversifying TV. Will it Work?

  by Kate L. Flach

  The technique of "racial inversion" was intended in the 1970s to encourage white viewers to empathize with Black characters. Today, as then, the results show that TV alone can't bridge the nation's racial divisions. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/4/2021
  

  Black Women, Sanderson Farms, and the Strike for Better Conditions

  by Derrion Arrington

  200 Black women poultry processing workers in Mississippi led a 1979 strike for safer conditions and protection from arbitrary actions by their all-white supervisors; they won, but their story highlights issues of labor exploitation and racism that still characterize the industry. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/7/2021
  

  Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History

  by Stephen G. Hall

  "Rather than being ensconced in the ivory tower, Reddick’s life and work demonstrates that far from distortion, dilution or politicization, Black history’s communal nature has made it the most dynamic, engaged, and visionary project in the academy."

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• SOURCE: Global Sport Matters
  10/6/2021
  

  MLB Passed on the Chance to Stop the Drain of African American Players from Baseball

  by Lou Moore

  Major League Baseball noticed that the trend of increased Black participation in the pro game was making a sharp U-turn as early as the mid-1970s. MLB ignored the advice of many Black players, managers and scouts to reach out to African American youth to protect the diversity and quality of the game. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/5/2021
  

  The Enduring Influence of Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Advocate

  by Jill Watts

  New books by Kate Clifford Larson and Keisha N. Blain aim to restore Fannie Lou Hamer to a position of prominence in the history of Black freedom struggles. 

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• 10/3/2021
  

  The Forgotten History of Solidarity Between Black and Indigenous Freedom Movements

  by Kyle T. Mays

  "We have forgotten a similar time in history when African American and Native American activists battled against colonialism and white supremacy, respecting the uniqueness of both groups’ history, but understanding that an end to US empire would require solidarity."

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• SOURCE: Texas Observer
  9/28/2021
  

  Prof. Leonard N. Moore on Teaching Black History to White People

  Professor Leonard Moore's new book insists that white people who hope to know more about Black history should begin by understanding more about the challenges faced by Black historians. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/28/2021
  

  When Black History Gets Unearthed, Who Speaks for the Dead?

  by Jill Lepore

  Locating and unearthing African American burial grounds is only the beginning of a process involving difficult questions of justice and inheritance. Should federal legislation make up for the legacy of dispossession that leaves cemeteries in legal limbo and without means for upkeep?