African American history

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• 5/31/2020
  

  Little Richard: Bold, Pioneering, Complex, and Unapologetic

  by Elwood Watson

  Little Richard left a lasting musical and cultural legacy because of his talent and his willingness to be more boldly black and sexual than other artists dared.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/27/2020
  

  How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror

  Throughout history, white women have used the violence of white men and the institutions these men control as their own muscle.

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• SOURCE: American Civil Liberties Union
  5/26/2020
  

  Reparations – Has the Time Finally Come?

  ACLU Senior Policy Analyst Nkechi Taifa discusses the history of the movement for African American reparations and how it has moved from the radical fringe to mainstream debate.

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• SOURCE: Watch The Yard
  5/22/2020
  

  The Story Of How The First White Member Of Delta Sigma Theta Was A Segregationist’s Worst Nightmare

  Joan Trumpauer Mulholland joined the Freedom Riders in 1961, served a sentence at the notorious Parchman Farm prison, and enrolled at historically Black Tougalou College, where she joined the Delta Sigma Theta sorority and continued civil rights activism in Jackson, MS.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  5/22/2020
  

  The Overlooked Black History of Memorial Day

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  The role of African Americans in creating a day of tribute to the Union Army has been obscured by pro-Confederate narratives of national reconcilation after the overthrow of Reconstruction.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  5/22/2020
  

  These Photos Capture the Lives of African American Soldiers who Served During World War II

  Pittsburgh photographer Teenie Harris focused on the patriotism of men who fought for the country abroad while being discriminated against at home.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  5/22/2022
  

  Renovations Start on Civil War Memorial Honoring the Massachusetts 54th Regiment

  The renovation site will be a popup history museum as barriers will be decorated with recruitment posters, servicemen's letters, and other ephemera from the history of the Massachusetts 54th regiment of African American soldiers. 

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• SOURCE: Facing South
  5/24/2020
  

  Remembering Ray Eurquhart, a Lifelong Activist Radicalized in the Military

  Ray Eurquhart developed as an activist by organizing his fellow Air Force personnel during his Vietnam-era service, bringing the demands of civil rights movements into the military.

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  5/23/2020
  

  You Should Know More About A. Philip Randolph, One of America’s Greatest Socialists

  As the Left attempts to chart a new course in the wake of the Bernie Sanders campaign, there’s no better time to learn from America’s most underrated socialist, labor leader, and civil rights legend, A. Philip Randolph.

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• 5/24/2020
  

  "The News Will Get Out Soon Enough": Homefront Jim Crow and the Integration of the U.S. Navy

  by Dan C. Goldberg

  Politico reporter Dan Goldberg's new book details how thirteen black men overcame prejudice and indifference to integrate the Navy's officer corps in 1944. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/16/2020
  

  Ida Taught Me

  by Koritha Mitchell

  As the United States seems determined to repeat the horrors of the last turn of the century, I remain grateful for Wells’s example. Here is just some of what she taught me.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  5/19/2020
  

  How the U.S. Navy’s First Black Officers Helped Reshape the American Military

  by Dan C. Goldberg

  The story of the Navy’s first black officers remains little known, overshadowed by the heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen and Patton’s Panthers.

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• SOURCE: Columbus Dispatch
  5/18/2020
  

  Columbus Historian Hits Streets in Search of African American Stories

  Rita Fuller-Yates earned a bachelor's degree in history and worked in corporate America and as a lifestyle columnist. But now she's a fierce avocate for memorializing one of Ohio's black leaders (and the history of African Americans in Columbus) on the grounds of the Statehouse.

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• SOURCE: San Francisco Classical Voice
  5/18/2020
  

  A New Biography of Odetta Reveals a Difficult Life Well Sung

  Ian Zack's biography of the singer Odetta reveals a great deal about the limits racism and sexism imposed on her career and the limited terms on which she was accepted by white audiences.

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• SOURCE: BET
  5/19/2020
  

  A New Documentary On Opera Singer Marian Anderson Is Coming To PBS

  A new PBS documentary will commemorate singer Marian Anderson's voice and her activism.

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• SOURCE: Southern Maryland Chronicle
  5/18/2020
  

  Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture Announces $1 Million In Funding for Preservation Projects

  The Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture (MCAAHC) announces $1 million in available funds for African American preservation projects throughout the state of Maryland.

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• SOURCE: Chicago Teachers Union
  5/19/2020
  

  Zoom Webinar: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Discusses "Race for Profit," May 19, 4:30 PM CDT

  The award-winning historian and public speaker will discuss the relationship between housing policy and racial inequality in the United States

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/14/2020
  

  We Must Not Forget The Jackson State Massacre

  by Robert Luckett

  The killings at Jackson State in 1970 should be a reminder that state-sanctioned violence aimed at the marginalized remains a systemic part of American life. 

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• SOURCE: National Museum of African American History and Culture
  5/14/2020
  

  We Return Fighting: The African American Experience in World War I (Virtual Exhibition)

  This exhibition immerses virtual visitors into a conversation that examines what fighting in the first global war meant for African Americans.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  5/12/2020
  

  Online Roundtable: Saidiya Hartman’s ‘Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments’

  From May 18-22, a group of five scholars will participate in a roundtable to discuss Hartman's most recent work.