Category : Culture

Who Was Jim Crow?

nationalgeographic.com - In 1944, the Detroit chapter of the NAACP held a mock-funeral for him. In 1963, participants in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom symbolically buried him. Racial discrimination existed thr…Tweeted by @coachtodaro h...

Opinion | Virginia is proof that reparations for slavery can work

washingtonpost.com - By Ken Woodley July 19 Ken Woodley is the author of “The Road to Healing: A Civil Rights Reparations Story in Prince Edward County, Virginia.” The growing national debate over slavery reparations wou…Tweeted by @sotrueradio https...

The Role of Gay Men and Lesbians in the Civil Rights Movement

tolerance.org - Most history textbooks lack inclusion of the significant contributions LGBT African-Americans made to the civil rights movement. This series introduces students to four LGBT people of African descent…Tweeted by @KeioshaDreams https://...

Texas Students Will Learn That the Civil War Was About Slavery. Sort of.

dallasobserver.com - Beginning this fall, Texas students will learn a fact that's as true today as it was in 1861: Texas and the 10 other states that made up the Confederacy seceded from the Union over the issue of slave…Tweeted by @KevinLevin https:...

Balancing the Ledger on Juneteenth

theatlantic.com - Amid the wreckage of Reconstruction, the sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois wrote Black Reconstruction in America, a celebration of freedom demanded and claimed, and a lamentation of the collapse of an era…Tweeted by @shakespearelovr http...

Pitt Urban Education Forum Explores Disrupting School-to-Prison Pipeline

diverseeducation.com - PITTSBURGH – Using education and activism to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline is an ongoing battle that is as fierce as ever, according to speakers at the 2019 Summer Educator Forum presented by…Tweeted by @WilliamJZee3 ht...

How the History of Blackface Is Rooted in Racism

history.com - Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images The portrayal of blackface–when people darken their skin with shoe polish, greasepaint or burnt cork and paint on enlarged lips and other exaggerated f…Tweeted by @MicheleDuffy18 https://t...

If you don’t like it, don’t leave. Stay and fight to make it better.

medium.com - The reality is that all of America’s social and political progress is owed to people who saw problems, criticized them, but did not leave. Instead they stayed and sacrificed much, many losing their l…Tweeted by @catmartini53 https://twit...

Washington Post

washingtonpost.com - Civil War re-enactors Lt. James Hayes, from left, Samuel Stephenson and Marvin-Alonzo Greer participate in a Juneteenth celebration at the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum in Atlanta in 2014. (…Tweeted by @araorun https://t...

The "new (false) narrative" and the progressive tale of two Americas

stridentconservative.com - The more the fundamental transformation of America marches on, the more even her history is being “organized” against her. It’s not by chance that the more this new reorganized history bubbles up fro…Tweeted by @StridentCon...

It Matters Who You See in Outdoor Media

outsideonline.com - There’s a personal story I’ve told many times about my experience of being African American in the great outdoors. Back in the late 1990’s I used to live in Bellingham, Washington. One afternoon, I w…Tweeted by @RaeWynnGrant https...

Healing and Reconciliation – Platform

platformwomen.org - June 19th, 2019 marked 154 years of the oldest national celebration of the end to slavery in the United States- Juneteenth. On June 19th, 1865, two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipa…Tweeted by @PlatformWomen http...

The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration

smithsonianmag.com - In 1963, the American mathematician Edward Lorenz, taking a measure of the earth’s atmosphere in a laboratory that would seem far removed from the social upheavals of the time, set forth the theory t…Tweeted by @SharonGibson3 htt...

Code Switch Book Club, Summer 2019

npr.org - A few of the great books that our listeners recommend for summer reading. So, Fam: We asked you to suggest good summer reads, and boy, did you respond! Big thanks to everyone who sent thoughts on boo…Tweeted by @2040Books https://twitter.co...

Books That Inspire: The 10 Most Inspirational Books for Women in 2019 | Books | 30Seconds Mom

30seconds.com - Her mom was working as a maid. Her dad’s Alzheimer’s was in high gear. And the rent on her parents’ small Chicago apartment had just gone up. Again. But Lori was holding it all together: helping care…Tweeted by @elisatalk https://twit...