Category : Lifestyle

No One Has A Plan For Black Americans

medium.com - Out of all of the Democratic front runners in the 2020 election cycle none of them have a agenda specific to the needs of Black Americans, every one of them are attempting to sell us on a ‘rising tid…Tweeted by @NowAdos https://twitter.c...

Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers

Each week, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. The links presented direct the reader to articles from many different points of view that deal with issues of African A...

LIVESTREAM: Ben Shapiro: America Wasn't Built On Slavery, It Was Built On Freedom

dailywire.com - In front of a sold-out crowd on the campus of Boston University Wednesday, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro takes on one of the Left’s most prevalent claims: “America was built on slavery,” a c…Tweeted by @Alizabeth_usa https://...

Ben & Jerry's Stands in Support of H.R. 40 and Reparations for African Americans

ibw21.org - Four hundred years ago, the first enslaved Africans were brought to North America in Jamestown, Virginia. As all of us acknowledge and observe this anniversary, we, as a company, believe it’s importa…Tweeted by @ministter https://twitter....

Disney+ Warns Users About "Outdated Cultural Depictions" in Titles

hollywoodreporter.com - At the bottom of the description for Disney's 1940 classic animation Fantasia on the studio's newly minted Disney+ service, there is a line that is garnering attention from viewers: “This program is …Tweeted by @davidkittredge...

Guides: A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States: Jim Crow Era

guides.ll.georgetown.edu - After the Civil War, there was a period from about 1865 to 1877 where federal laws offered observable protection of civil rights for former slaves and free blacks; it wasn't entirely awful to be an A…Tweeted by @phonyette h...

Colorblindness and Liberal Racial Paternalism in Bailey v. Alabama

lpeblog.org - Anyone familiar with Bailey v. Alabama understands that it was a case about racial domination in the Jim Crow South. Lonzo Bailey was a Black agricultural laborer who quit his job with a white farmer…Tweeted by @regnostierras https://tw...

C. Vann Woodward (1908-99) | Perspectives on History

historians.org - At the age of 91, C. Vann Woodward died on December 17, 1999, at his home in Hamden, Connecticut. The Sterling Professor Emeritus, Yale University, was one of the greatest historians of 20th-century …Tweeted by @Stephen_A_West https:...

Disney+ Won't Have Song Of The South; Dumbo's Crow Scene Will Be Cut

screenrant.com - Disney+ won’t include Song of the South, and Dumbo’s crow scene will be cut. As the race to create the most in-demand subscription streaming service continues to heat up, Disney has quickly become a …Tweeted by @LorenzoSleestak https...

Have You Traded One Form of Hair Slavery For Another?

Slavery is probably a very strong word, but I must admit it gets people’s attention, so why not. Despite the negative connotations of the word slavery, in this case, it just means work. I read a very interesting article the other day from Natur...

Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these...

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow

schumanities.org - Rose Hill Plantation State Historic Site in Union will host the exhibit “Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow” from August 31 – November 29, 2019. The exhibit explores the struggle for full citiz…Tweeted by @sc_humanities https...

New Georgia Tech Program Aims to Increase Diversity of Critics and Reviewers

The Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta recently held a workshop to develop a program to increase diversity among critics and reviewers of poetry. The effort is a collaboration of the university’s Poetry@Tech program and the Ledbury Emer...

Black Entrepreneurs during the Jim Crow Era - Blog - The Henry Ford

thehenryford.org - “Jim Crow” laws—first enacted in the 1880s by angry and resentful Southern whites against freed African Americans—separated blacks from whites in all aspects of daily life. Favoring whites and repres…Tweeted by @AJMacDonaldJr https...

People Are Noticing Racism In Disney Movies Thanks To Disney+

vt.co - Like many people out there, Disney is one of my favorite things on the planet. From the boundary-pushing movies to the iconic cartoons to the greatest theme parks on the planet - Disney is a company …Tweeted by @SIOUX_SIMBA https://twitter.co...