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Baldwin Speaks To Black Moral Exhaustion In Response to Unrelenting White Racism | Kevin C. Peterson, Medium

August 10, 2020October 3, 2020African American Activist

— Kevin C. Peterson, Medium The assaults just keep coming. It seemingly is not enough that the nation recently experienced enormous convulsing in the wake of a trinity of racially tainted murders that included Ahmaud Aubrey, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. What comes after is an avalanche of hate. The hostility reveals how deeply whites are […]

A Curriculum for Black Youth Activism | AAUP

February 21, 2020April 9, 2020African American Activist, African American Author ...

What is the source of black youth activism? What nurtures it, and how has it evolved over time? Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism By Jelani M. Favors. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. What is the source of black youth activism? What nurtures […]

Ella Baker’s Legacy Runs Deep. Know Her Name. | The New York Times

January 21, 2020January 27, 2020African American Activist, African American History

Her fighting spirit lives on in today’s social movements. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 1964, he observed that anytime an award is given to “the dedicated pilots of our struggle who have sat at the controls as the freedom movement soared into […]

I am not ‘non-white’ | Daily Kos

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020African American Activist

I’m black. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] I’ve been black, and proud to be black, my whole life. My parents raised me like that. They grew up as ‘Negroes.’ They had to drink at water fountains labeled ‘colored.’ They lived long enough to become Afro-Americans, and then African Americans. I was, and still am, militantly black. I’ve lived […]

10 James Baldwin Books to Read in Your Lifetime | The Oprah Magazine

January 14, 2020January 27, 2020African American Activist, African American Author ...

More from the literary legend behind If Beale Street Could Talk. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] James Baldwin is an iconic author for our time, a writer who gave the world countless poignant essays, shorts stories, novels, plays, and poems during his 63 years. As a gay Black man coming to terms with his identity in the 1950s, […]

What Martin Luther King Sr. Wrote About His Son’s Death | Time

January 6, 2020January 6, 2020African American Activist, African American History ...

In April 1968, my sons went to Memphis to help organize a struggle by the city’s sanitation workers to achieve better wages and working conditions. I wondered about M.L.’s involvement in this, whether or not he was spreading his concerns and his energies too thin. But again he was right. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] reside online and […]

KKK Bombs Alabama Home of Civil Rights Leader Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth | Equal Justice Initiative

January 6, 2020January 6, 2020African American Activist, African American History

On December 25, 1956, Ku Klux Klan members in Alabama bombed the home of civil rights activist Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Shuttlesworth was home at the time of the bombing with his family and two members of Bethel Baptist Church, where he served as pastor. The 16-stick dynamite blast destroyed the home and caused […]

Richard and Mildred Loving Plead Guilty to Marrying Interracially | Equal Justice Initiative

January 6, 2020January 6, 2020African American Activist, African American History

After marrying in Washington, D.C., in 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving returned to their native Caroline County, Virginia, to build a home and start a family. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Their union was a criminal act in Virginia because Richard was white, Mildred was black, and the state’s Racial Integrity Act, passed in 1924, criminalized interracial marriage. […]

Exploding Myths About ‘Black Power, Jewish Politics’ | NPR

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020African American Activist, African American History ...

Many Americans tell the story of Black-Jewish political relations like this: First, there was the Civil Rights movement, where the two groups got along great. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] This was the mid-1950s to the mid-60s — picture Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. marching arm-in-arm from Selma to Montgomery. And James Chaney, […]

Pardons for the Wilmington 10 | The New York Times

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020African American Activist, African American History ...

Before leaving office next month, Gov. Bev Perdue of North Carolina should finally pardon the Wilmington 10, a group of civil rights activists who were falsely convicted and imprisoned in connection with a racial disturbance in the city of Wilmington more than 40 years ago. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The convictions, based on flimsy evidence and perjured […]