By Lizzie Presser, ProPublica IN THE SPRING OF 2011, the brothers Melvin Davis and Licurtis Reels were the talk of Carteret County, on the central coast of North Carolina. Some people said that the brothers were righteous; others thought that they had lost their minds. That March, Melvin and Licurtis stood in court and refused to […]
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The Truth Behind ’40 Acres and a Mule’ | PBS
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PBS IMAGE: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Featured Image [dropcap]We’ve[/dropcap] all heard the story of the “40 acres and a mule” promise to former slaves. It’s a staple of black history lessons, and it’s the name of Spike Lee’s film company. The promise was the first systematic attempt to provide a form of […]
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Why reparations to African-Americans are necessary – and how to start now | The Conversation
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Garden & Gun Five generations on Smith’s Plantation Beaufort at South Carolina in 1862. Timothy H. O’Sullivan/Library of Congress. Featured Image [dropcap]In[/dropcap] a 2016 poll, 58 per cent of African-Americans said they believed that the United States should pay financial reparations to African-Americans who are descendants of slaves. Only 15 per cent […]
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Beloved Baton Rouge Activist Sadie Roberts-Joseph Suffocated To Death And Was Found In A Car’s Trunk | Buzzfeed News
The death of Roberts-Joseph, founder of the city’s African American history museum, has been ruled a homicide.
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African-American GIs and German Radicals: An Unexpected Alliance | JSTOR Daily
In December 1969, radical German students reached out to the increasingly politicized black GIs. Together, they organized a series of rallies and teach-ins at German universities.
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UCSC emerita professor Angela Davis to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame | UC Santa Cruz
Scott Rappaport, UC Santa Cruz [dropcap]In[/dropcap] celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, The National Women’s Hall of Fame will host a weekend this September in New York honoring the achievements of American women in the birthplace of the country’s Women’s Rights movement. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The highlight […]
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While NASA Was Landing on the Moon, Many African-Americans Sought Economic Justice Instead | Smithsonian Magazine
For those living in poverty, the billions spent on the Apollo program, no matter how inspiring the mission, laid bare the nation’s priorities
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The Women Who Brought Us the Moon | PBS
Nathalia Holt, PBS Computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, including Janez Lawson and Barbara Paulson. Credit: NASA/JPL. Featured Image [dropcap]In[/dropcap] 1965, Poppy Northcutt was the only female engineer at NASA’s Houston Mission Control. As she gazed at the men around her she thought to herself, I’m as smart as they are. Although she belonged among […]
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Is ‘Race Science’ Making A Comeback? | NPR
Jess Kung, Gene Demby & Shereen Marisol Meraji | NPR Angela Saini, author of Superior: The Return of Race Science. Henrietta Garden. Featured Image [dropcap]When[/dropcap] Angela Saini was 10 years old, her family moved from what she called “a very multicultural area” in East London to the almost exclusively white Southeast London. Suddenly her brown […]
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Read The Powerful Letter Fredrick Douglass Wrote To Harriet Tubman In 1868 | Watch The Yard
Watch The Yard Staff, Watch The Yard [dropcap]Frederick[/dropcap] Douglass and Harriet Ross Tubman were both born into slavery around the same time on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and became two of the best-known African Americans of the Civil War era. Both Douglass and Tubman escaped slavery as young adults: he in 1838, she in 1849, but […]
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