As part of Black History Month, we take a look at a truly inspirational Edinburgh man who Darwin hired to teach him taxidermy
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Photographs Help Preserve Chicago’s African American History | CBS Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS)– One man from the south suburbs discovered a treasure trove of old photographs that could help preserve the past of African Americans in Chicago.
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Five black men raided Harpers Ferry with John Brown. They’ve been forgotten. | The Washington Post
Every October, on the anniversary of the raid that helped fuel the Civil War, much attention is focused on Brown, not on his African American soldiers
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Civil rights legal history comes alive | The St. Louis American
Meet descendants of Dred Scott v Sandford, Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education
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From emperors to inventors: the unsung heroes to celebrate in Black History Month | The Guardian
In 1926, the US historian Carter G Woodson, the son of former slaves, launched Negro History Week to commemorate important people and events from the African diaspora.
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Building America | The Nation
The making of the black working class.
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Discussing Blackness on Reddit? Photograph Your Forearm First | The New York Times
Moderators of an online forum called Black People Twitter have caused an uproar by requiring participants to submit a photograph proving they are not white.
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Hidden Herstory: The Leesburg Stockade Girls | NMAAHC
I never fully realized the monumental role that massive numbers of children played in civil rights protests. Law enforcement arrested and jailed children by the thousands for days, and sometimes months, and their involvement helped to enable one of the greatest legal and social assaults on racism in the 20th century—the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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The U.S. Has Been Silencing Black Girls’ Voices for Decades | Teen Vogue
In this op-ed, Juvenile Law Center’s Jessica Feierman and Girls for Gender Equity’s Ashley Sawyer talk about the systemic punishment and arrest of Black girls who speak out about discrimination.
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The Ghosts of Elaine, Arkansas, 1919 | NY Books
In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre in Phillips County, Arkansas, which took place in October 1919, a century ago this week, may rank as the deadliest. The reasons why the event has remained shrouded and obscure, despite a shocking toll of bloodshed inflicted on the African-American inhabitants of Phillips County, […]
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