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Smithsonian African American History Museum Gets Own Stamp | The Afro

October 5, 2017October 5, 2017African American Art, African American History ...

The United States Postal Service will immortalize the Smithsonian National Museum of African American and Culture on a Forever stamp slated to be issued next week.

At the Brooklyn Museum, New Research on Lynching in America Dialogues with the Art | Hyperallergic

October 4, 2017African American Art, African American Culture ...

The Legacy of Lynching is a collaboration between the museum and the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, presenting racial histories we’ve long been asleep to.

From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones | The New York Times

September 22, 2017September 23, 2017Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform ...

Michelle Jones was released last month after serving more than two decades in an Indiana prison for the murder of her 4-year-old son. The very next day, she arrived at New York University, a promising Ph.D. student in American studies.

[VIDEO] When James Baldwin Met Bill Buckley | The Atlantic

September 22, 2017African American History, African American Literature ...

(2012) “The problem in Mississippi isn’t that too few Negroes can vote, it’s that too many whites can”

Roald Dahl’s Widow Says ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Hero Was Supposed to be Black | The New York Times

September 22, 2017African American History, KOLUMN ...

The widow and the biographer of the beloved British children’s writer Roald Dahl told the BBC in an interview this week that Charlie Bucket, the young boy whose life is changed by a golden ticket in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” was originally supposed to be black.

How ‘The Snowy Day’ — on a postage stamp — can help us rethink race in America | The Washington Post

September 12, 2017African American Education, African American History ...

“Consumers of these racist ideas… have been led to believe there is something wrong with Black people, and not the policies that have enslaved, oppressed, and confined so many Black people.”

The ‘slave block’ in a town in Virginia: should it stay or should it go? | The Guardian

September 7, 2017September 7, 2017African American History, African American News ...

A onetime site of slave sales in Fredericksburg has provoked a fierce debate. This is not a monument, it’s a piece of history – but should it be removed from view?