The best way to start any day is with some black excellence, and today that cup runneth the hell over. The list of MacArthur fellows is out, and this year, six of the recipients are black.
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Mississippi Textbooks Are Keeping Students Ignorant of the Civil Rights Movement | Truthout
Before 2011, Mississippi public school students weren’t required to learn about the Civil Rights Movement at all. The previous social studies standards mentioned the phrase “civil rights” just three times in the 305-page document. It refers to the “Civil Rights Movement” once.
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Can an All-Boys, Afrocentric Education Close the Achievement Gap? | The Root
“There is so much fear in the average black male growing up in a city that is covered up as bravado….”
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In honor of civil and women’s rights activist Mary Church Terrell | Hello Giggles
Mary Church Terrell is a figure in African-American and women’s history worth celebrating. Born in Memphis, Tennessee on September 23rd, 1863, Terrell would go on to be one of the first African American women to attend Oberlin College.
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When Affirmative Action Isn’t Enough | The New York Times
Because race-based discrepancies in academic achievement emerge in early childhood, “college is way too little, too late to source the pipeline”
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Dr. Carla Hayden Talks Making History As The First Woman And First African-American To Become Librarian Of Congress | Essence
We’re proud to help celebrate Carla Hayden as part of the TIME Firsts series, highlighting phenomenal from multiple industries who broke barriers and made history.
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How ‘The Snowy Day’ — on a postage stamp — can help us rethink race in America | The Washington Post
“Consumers of these racist ideas… have been led to believe there is something wrong with Black people, and not the policies that have enslaved, oppressed, and confined so many Black people.”
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‘The Way to Survive It Was to Make A’s’ | The New York Times Magazine
They were the first black boys to integrate the South’s elite prep schools. They drove themselves to excel in an unfamiliar environment. But at what cost?
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Hidden Figure | VUMC Voice
In 1964, with little fanfare, Harold Jordan, M.D., became the first African-American resident physician at Vanderbilt. Looking back to that time, he recalls the support of his colleagues and the challenges he faced.
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Writing Mississippi: Jesmyn Ward Salvages Stories Of The Silenced | 88.5 WFDD
For writer Jesmyn Ward, Mississippi is a place she loves and hates all at once.
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