African American history

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  9/26/2022
  

  Education or Trauma: Debating the Movie Presentation of "Till"

  Despite the violence and brutality of the subject matter, historian Keisha Blain calls the upcoming Emmett Till film essential viewing in a time when it can't be assumed that everyone knows the story. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/20/2022
  

  Evanston, Illinois Passed a Reparations Program. Can its Liberal Present Confront the Segregated Past?

  by Kari Lydersen

  The Chicago suburb has focused on progams to rectify the harms caused by discrete city actions, specifically generations of housing discrimination that limited Black wealth gains from real estate. Can it make a difference? Will local taxpayers support it? 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  9/12/2022
  

  The Slave Dwelling Project Pushes History of Slave Rebellions to the Public

  Joseph McGill Jr. links the history of the Stono Rebellion and subsequent slave uprisings to the current effort to suppress so-called Critical Race Theory in schools. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/9/2022
  

  Black Historians Know There Has Never Been Objectivity in Writing the Past

  by Keisha N. Blain

  "Black historians have long recognized the role of the present in shaping our narratives of the past. We have never had the luxury of writing about the past as though it were divorced from present concerns."

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• SOURCE: TIME
  9/15/2022
  

  The Promise and Peril of the "Third Reconstruction"

  by Peniel E. Joseph

  At a time when the nation is balanced precariously between advocates for multiracial democracy and white nationalists, it is important to understand the history and the incompleteness of the expansion of freedom and democracy during Reconstruction. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  9/7/2022
  

  Cherokee Nation Opens Exhibition on Slavery

  Until recently, the Cherokee National History Museum in Oklahoma did not acknowledge slave ownership by tribal members or the efforts of the descendants of the enslaved to claim tribal membership. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  9/4/2022
  

  "Hell, Yes, We Are Subversive": The Legacy of Angela Davis

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  While Davis was acquitted of murder charges in a highly politicized case 50 years ago, her influence on contemporary protest movements has never been higher. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/6/2022
  

  What's Causing a Half Century of "Black Flight"?

  Despite political rhetoric from some quarters, suburbanization has been undermining the association of Black America with central cities – in large part because of the disinvestment and abandonment of urban communities. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/4/2022
  

  Ericka Huggins and Stephen Shames Team Up on Photographic History of Black Panther Women

  Looking beyond iconic and high-profile women in the movement, a new book examines the organizing energy ordinary Black women brought to, and the empowerment they often took from, the Black Panther Party.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/4/2022
  

  Landmark Building Embodies Past and Present of DC's Black Community

  The True Reformer Building in Washington is likely the first in the nation to be designed, funded, built and owned by African Americans as part of a comprehensive mission of economic and social self-reliance and uplift in the early 20th century. 

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• SOURCE: Harper's Bazaar
  9/1/2022
  

  The Jackson Water Crisis Latest Chapter in Black Mutual Aid

  by Kaitlyn Greenidge

  The two sides of Mississippi's history are its exploitative oligarchy and the efforts of Black Mississippians and their allies to imagine egalitarian alternatives against the odds. Activists' responses to the collapse of the Jackson water infrastructure will test that spirit. 

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• SOURCE: Black Agenda Report
  8/31/2022
  

  Three Radical Black Women

  by Gerald Horne

  Esther Cooper Jackson, Louise Thompson Patterson and Dorothy Burnham should be remembered as exemplars of the struggle for comprehensive liberation in Black America, and of the role of Communists and other radicals in the long struggle for civil rights. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/31/2022
  

  Esther Cooper Jackson, Radical Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 105

  “She shamed you out of bourgeois confidence, then devoted selfless time to your progressive re-education,” Professor David Levering Lewis said.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/26/2022
  

  After 4 Decades in the Classroom, a Teacher Keeps History Alive

  "When we take out big chunks of history, that diminishment diminishes us. You know, my grandmother was a quilter. And she put scraps together into these beautiful patterns. And I feel that I'm doing that, but with history."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  8/30/2022
  

  The Missing Black Women in Denmark Vesey's Rebellion

  by Karen Cook Bell

  Though no enslaved women were indicted as co-conspirators in Charleston, they maintained a culture of silence that enabled future subversive and freedom-seeking actions. 

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• SOURCE: History Matters
  8/29/2022
  

  Overshadowed in His Time, Bayard Rustin's Leadership Speaks to Today's Fights for Justice

  by Jerald Podair

  Rustin was a forward-looking radical who embraced socialist, labor, and racial justice struggles. But homophobia across the color line limited his public influence in the 1960s.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/27/2022
  

  Black Women Veterans of Movement to Desegregate St. Augustine will Never Forget what they Endured

  The 1964 campaign against Jim Crown in St. Augustine, waged as the Civil Rights Act was being filibustered in the Senate, remains an understudied battle in the movement. Many surviving women activists are keepers of knowledge about this phase of the freedom struggle. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  8/28/2022
  

  Recovering the Core Radicalism of the Civil Rights Movement: An Interview with Glenda Gilmore

  by Robert Greene II

  Cold war histories of civil rights have obscured the key role of communists and other radicals in establishing the economic demands of the movement and the practice of interracial mobilization. 

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• SOURCE: New America
  8/23/2022
  

  Keisha Blain's New Project Looks to Black Women Activists as Architects of Modern Human Rights Campaigns

  "As someone who is very committed to unearthing the histories of Black working-class and working-poor women, I have had to move beyond the traditional archive."

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  8/25/2022
  

  How a Deadly Explosion Catalyzed Civil Rights Activism Among Black WWII Soldiers

  by Matthew Delmont

  Segregated Navy men had been assigned dangerous duty loading munitions onto ships without adequate training or appropriate limits on the pace of their work. The inevitable disastrous explosion at Port Chicago created a surge of racial justice and labor activism in the military.