The story of Ernest Thomas is a tragic example of racial injustice that occurred in the United States in the mid-20th century. Thomas was an African American man who was accused of a crime he did not commit and subsequently faced a horrific fate. By Uzonna Anele, Talk AfricanaPhoto, (From left) Lake County Sheriff Willis […]
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Players from first all-Black All-American women’s basketball team reflect on making history in 1984
The 10 team members marveled over its meaning, then and now By Branson Wright, ANDSCAPEPhoto, USC All-American Cheryl Miller with USC flag team in 1984. Tony Duffy/Getty Images 1984 was packed with many firsts in women’s basketball. It was a year with a glimpse into the future of the game’s evolution, a year filled with […]
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The Oakland Tribune’s First Black Photojournalist Captured the ‘Black Aesthetic’ of the ’60s and ’70s
By Ariana Proehl, KQEDPhoto, Woman in downtown San Francisco on Market Street. (Kenneth P. Green Sr.) You know that curiosity that pops up sometimes when you’re in a gallery and you’re looking at a really good photo of a stranger? And the spirit of it, the everyday-ness of it, makes you want to know the person’s story? Were […]
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‘World’s Richest Negro Girl’ inspired media ridicule, fascination, alarm
Sarah Rector was 11 when oil was discovered on her land in Oklahoma in 1913. Her sudden wealth became the object of racist news coverage. By Sydney Trent, Washington PostPhoto, Sarah Rector with her nephew, Chester E. Brown Jr., in 1960 (Family photo) Deborah Brown grew up calling her “Aunt Sister,” and she remembersher storied […]
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Harry Belafonte, barrier-smashing entertainer and activist, dies at 96 | The Washington Post
Harry Belafonte, the singer whose dynamic a cappella shout of “Day-O!” from “The Banana Boat Song” and other music from world folk traditions propelled him to international stardom, and who used his entertainment fortune to help bankroll the civil rights movement at home and human rights causes worldwide, died April 25 at his home in Manhattan. He was 96.
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Excavation Begins For Possible Mass Grave From 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre | NPR, WAMU 88.5
By Brakkton Booker, NPR, WAMU 88.5 Nearly a century ago, Tulsa, Okla., was the site of one of the most brutal race massacres in U.S. history. As many as 300 African American residents were slaughtered by white mobs, and a section of the city known as Black Wall Street was reduced to ash. For decades, […]
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The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right | Politico
Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.
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Civil Rights, One Person and One Photo at a Time | The New York Times
The hands of the father and his young daughter wave emphatically: the two are not in agreement. The man talks. His eyes are closed; he looks pained. The child listens, but gazes at a plate of cookies on the dinner table. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The scene is not unusual: a father is telling his daughter that […]
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How a Wave of Honest History Museums Is Changing Black Tourism | Slate
On a walking tour of the New Orleans Garden District, my husband and I exchanged meaningful glances after the fourth or fifth time our guide delicately referred to the slaves who once worked in those elegant old homes as “servants.” To our ears, the reference was absurdly, offensively inapt, as if those enslaved people had […]
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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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