African American history

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/22/19
  

  Memes and Memory: How Anthony Johnson, a Captive African, Became a Right-wing Talking Point

  by Tyler Parry

  Memes are perfect for establishing “Myth-stories,” as they do not ask readers to evaluate the sources and are often shared prolifically.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/16/19
  

  Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here’s Why That Never Happened.

  For a brief moment, the civil rights movement and the space race came together.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/14/2019
  

  Founder Of African American History Museum Discovered Dead

  Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, was discovered on Friday afternoon in the trunk of a car about 3 miles from her home.

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  7/9/19
  

  Why We Need More Black Women In Economics

  by Keri Leigh Merritt

  Recently a group of brilliant, driven, young Black women formed The Sadie Collective, an organization that “seeks to be an answer to the dismal representation of Black women in the quantitatively demanding fields such as public policy, economics, data analytics, and finance.”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/9/19
  

  The Chicago Defender, Legendary Black Newspaper, Prints Last Copy

  For generations of black Americans, The Defender, influential and tough, was a force: “You knew it didn’t happen if it wasn’t in The Defender.”

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  7/9/19
  

  The World-Class Photography of Ebony and Jet Is Priceless History. It's Still Up For Sale.

  by Alison Miller

  The archive’s unquestionable historical value means there’s more than money at stake in the process of finding a new home for it.

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• SOURCE: AP
  7/5/2019
  

  National Trust for Historic Preservation grants $1.6M for places that are part of black history

  Grants, provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are given across four categories: capacity building, project planning, capital, and programming and interpretation.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/6/2019
  

  2019 Belongs to Shirley Chisholm

  A feature film. A monument. Tattoos in her honor. People looking for a hero have found one in this one-woman precursor to today’s progressive politics.

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• SOURCE: US News
  7/7/2019
  

  Kentucky Historians Explore the Role of Slaves in Kentucky's Bourbon Legacy

  In archives across Kentucky, Erin Wiggins Gilliam is on a search for the faces and names of slaves who worked in America's first whiskey distilleries.

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• SOURCE: Time
  7/3/2019
  

  'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?': The History of Frederick Douglass' Searing Independence Day Oration

  Douglass’ message — about America struggling to live up to the lofty goals it set for itself at the founding — continues to be relevant.

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• SOURCE: Intelligencer
  6/30/2019
  

  Two MLK Scholars Discuss Explosive, Disputed FBI Files on the Civil-Rights Icon

  Professor Michael Honey, who teaches civil-rights history at the University of Washington Tacoma, took strong issue with historian and former University of Pittsburgh professor David Garrow’s framing of the newly discovered file.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/30/2019
  

  For D.C., Pittsburgh kids, baseball weekend is also a lesson in African American history

  In anticipation of next year’s 100th anniversary of the Negro leagues’ beginning, kids were brought together to learn about African American history and culture, especially its role in baseball.

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• SOURCE: Civil War Memory
  6/26/19
  

  Boston’s Black History is American History

  by Kevin Levin

  We still have a ways to go in reaching beyond the traditional narrative of history in Boston and beyond.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/20/19
  

  Black People’s Land Was Stolen

  by Andrew W. Kahrl

  In addition to invoking the 40 acres black people never got, the reparations movement today should be talking about the approximately 11 million acres black people had but lost, in many cases through fraud, deception and outright theft, much of it taken in the past 50 years.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/25/19
  

  How right-wing talking points distort the history of slavery

  by Tyler D. Parry

  As we debate reparations, we need to get the facts right.

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• SOURCE: California Historical Society
  6/17/19
  

  The Transcontinental Railroad, African Americans and the California Dream

  by Alison Rose Jefferson

  Before, during and after the transcontinental line’s construction, in southern states, thousands of enslaved and then freedmen worked on the railroads grading lines, building bridges, and blasting tunnels.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/18/19
  

  The House Hearing on Slavery Reparations Is Part of a Long History. Here's What to Know on the Idea's Tireless Early Advocates

  by Arica L. Coleman

  The debate about reparations for slavery is not a new one — and the history of the idea shows just how many roadblocks there are to a meaningful conversation about the topic.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/19/19
  

  America Has Tried Reparations Before. Here Is How It Went.

  With a renewed focus on reparations for slavery, what lessons can be drawn from payments to victims of other historical injustices in America?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/19/19
  

  Why the racial wealth gap persists, more than 150 years after emancipation

  by Calvin Schermerhorn

  When one system of economic oppression collapsed, new ones were created to fill the void.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/19/19
  

  There Is No Middle Ground on Reparations

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  Americans who oppose reparations care more about responding to political expediency than about the emergency of inequality.