Parallel to today’s protest at the RISD Museum, organizers from Decolonize This Place gathered at the Brooklyn Museum to decry stolen objects in the Brooklyn Museum’s collection.
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Viola Davis Stars As Shirley Chisholm in New Movie | Colorlines
“The Fighting Shirley Chisholm” follows the first Black congresswoman and her trailblazing 1972 run for president.
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From dolls to magazine covers: how early black designers made their mark | The Guardian
In a new exhibition, the work of African American designers in Chicago is celebrated from editorial and product design to the first black-founded ad agency
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Olivia Hooker, Tulsa Race Riot Survivor, Dies At 103 | NPR
Olivia Hooker was one of the last surviving witnesses of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, and was the first African-American woman to join the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Chicago food bank gets hand from Barack Obama with Thanksgiving prep | USA Today
Former President Barack Obama popped in to visit volunteers at a Chicago food bank on Tuesday, helping out as the charity prepares to feed people in need on Thanksgiving.
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The Hidden History of African-American Burial Sites in the Antebellum South | Atlas Obscura
Enslaved people used codes to mark graves on plantation grounds.
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Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Celebrated in New Exhibit | Baltimore Magazine
Work by artist Ed Towles featured at The Frederick Douglass-Issac Myers Maritime Museum.
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5 Women Who Changed How We Think About Race | The New York Times
Amisha Padnani , The New York Times [dropcap]Devah[/dropcap] Pager, a Harvard sociologist who died on Nov. 2, demonstrated the tenacious power of race in hiring decisions. We looked back through our obituary archives and found five other women, some recently deceased, whose thinking had an impact on our understanding of race. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] 1862–1931 Ida […]
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‘The Kissing Case’ And The Lives It Shattered | NPR
In 1958, James Hanover Thompson and his friend David Simpson — both African-American, both children — were accused of kissing a girl who was white.
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The Double Battle | The Nation
Frederick Douglass’s moral crusade.
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