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Eletra Gilchrist-Petty was promoted to full professor of communication at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. She joined the faculty at the university as an assistant professor of communication arts in 2008 and subsequently was promoted and earn...
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citybeat.com - Photo: Die Jim Crow RecordsDie Jim Crow Records (DJC) is a nonprofit label, founded by Fury Young, with the goal of providing “formerly and currently incarcerated musicians a high-quality platform fo…
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced $1.76 million in emergency grants distributed to 16 historically Black colleges and universities. The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting students’ ability to pay tuition, travel to and from school, and access the...
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outsideonline.com - It's the spring of 2016, and I’m ten miles south of Damascus, Virginia, where an annual celebration called Trail Days has just wrapped up. Last night, temperatures plummeted into the thirties. Today,…Tweeted by @annie_zak https://...
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history.com - “There will be a day sometime in the near future when this guide will not have to be published. That is when we as a race will have equal opportunities and privileges in the United States. It will be…Tweeted by @TheChadFactor https://tw...
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umass.edu - "O’Brien’s book addresses the omission of race from both landscape architecture and the study of park history, and shows that park design was, like many activities, racially discriminatory. We may no…Tweeted by @asmhardin https://twitter....
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theatlantic.com - In 1936, a black postal worker named Victor Hugo Green published the first edition of The Negro Motorist Green Book. At the time, the segregation-era guide was meant to direct black New York City res…Tweeted by @PlayBoyMichiko https...
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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 @bernusmax https://twitte...
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prospect.org - The first time I encountered the idea that our criminal-justice system functions much like a racial caste system, I dismissed the notion. It was more than 10 years ago in Oakland when I was rushing t…Tweeted by @danvollaro https://twit...
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theconversation.com - Until the 21st century, the contributions of African-American soldiers in World War II barely registered in America’s collective memory of that war. The “tan soldiers,” as the black press affectionat…Tweeted by @IAMFridayJones h...
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boundingintocomics.com - Wonder Woman 1984 actor Chris Pine recently appeared on Variety’s Actors on Actors where he sat down opposite Netflix’s House of Cards actress Robin Wright. In a clip released by Variety, Pine questi…Tweeted by @LastStand2019...
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Around 9:04 AM, on November 9th, my phone vibrated notifying me that I had an email. I thought it was just another coupon ad or my professors buzzing in a day early, but I was wrong. The email was from a casting company saying I had been booked for a...
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nj.com - Two state Assembly members want New Jersey school districts to stop teaching Mark Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” because of racist language and themes in the 134-year-old story. T…Tweeted by @MattRooneyNJ https://twitter....
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ourwhirl.com - Just had a talk with four “blacks for trump”, none of them know each other, all are in four different areas of US. They all repeat/repeated the same thing, word for word, while calling others, who wo…Tweeted by @tamranyc https://twitte...
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mediaite.com - Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ campaign defended the candidate’s use of the uncensored n-word in a 1997 book, a defense that many people aren’t buyi…Tweeted by @s55_robert https://twit...
