The Phoblographer Staff, The Phoblographer [dropcap]Among[/dropcap] the challenges for today’s documentary photographers is to tell the story of those who challenge the norms, and shed light on their everyday life. This year, the ZEISS Photography Award asked participants for their creative take on the brief of “The Unexpected” and produce a body of work with […]
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Experts: Reparations Are Workable and Should Be Provided | Black Press USA
Stacy M. Brown, Black Press USA “The odds against success are great but given the meager gains to date, it’s just as fruitful to argue for reparations as anything else and besides it is a just cause,” said Dr. Mary Frances Berry, a Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and the author of […]
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MGM Is Making a Film About History’s First Black Samurai | Highsnobiety
Opinion | Race, Highsnobiety [dropcap]Black[/dropcap] burial sites are struggling for survival. Such struggles should be interpreted as elemental battles over the meaning, matter, and worth of black life, history, and memory. Take the Boyd Carter cemetery in Jefferson county, West Virginia, a historic African American burial ground that’s been active since 1902. In early April […]
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Americans are totally fine with reparations, just not for slavery | Quartz
Annalisa Merelli, Quartz [dropcap]Since[/dropcap] the second half of last century, countries like Germany, Austria, France, South Africa, and Canada have amended past wrongs by paying reparations to their victims. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The US, too, has supported reparations as a form of restorative justice. After World War II, it supported Jewish victims of the Holocaust in […]
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Paul Robeson fought Jim Crow, lynching, and McCarthyism | People’s World
Tony Pecinovsky, People’s World Paul Robeson, Trafalgar Square, London, June 1959, ullstein bild/Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]Gerald[/dropcap] Horne has made an amazing contribution to African American radical history with the newly published biography Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Though not as widely known as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or Malcolm X […]
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Historic Freedmen’s Bureau Records Released | Smithsonian
Volunteer Indexing Effort of 4 Million Freed-Slave Records Launched on Juneteenth
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These High School Murals Depict an Ugly History. Should They Go? | The New York Times
Carol Pogash, The New York Times One of the 13 murals that make up “The Life of Washington,” at George Washington High School in San Francisco. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times, Featured Image [dropcap]SAN[/dropcap] FRANCISCO — In one of the murals, George Washington points westward over the dead body of a Native American. Another […]
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When Hit Dogs Holler | Medium
Society is noisy right now, which to my ear sounds like the cacophonous wail of hit dogs. How do we deal with folks who don’t want to acknowledge or deal with systemic oppression?
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Civil Rights Legend Gloria Richardson’s ‘Eternal’ Struggle | AFRO
From Baltimore to Cambridge
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American Exceptionalism (White Exceptionalism by a nicer name) | Medium
William Spivey, Medium Illustration by Matthieu Bourel, photograph by Edu Bayer for The New York Times, Featured Image [dropcap]American[/dropcap] Exceptionalism has been described by historians since the mid-1800s. Definitions fall basically into three camps. 1. Because of its unique origins, born from revolution, America is unique from all other nations. Never having Kings and Queens […]
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