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Ibram X Kendi on why not being racist is not enough | The Guardian

August 22, 2019November 15, 2019African American History, Black History ...

The historian on how he confronted his own racism and the lessons he learned along the way, the far right’s abuse of free speech, and why the rise of the Squad gives him hope

The Great Land Robbery | The Atlantic

August 21, 2019August 21, 2019African American History, Black History ...

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms

How Slave Owners Dictated the Language of the 2nd Amendment | The Daily Beast

August 21, 2019November 15, 2019African American History, Black History ...

Southern aristocrats wanted armed militias mainly to control their slaves. So they wanted language in the new nation’s constitution protecting that right.

How Did African-American Farmers Lose 90 percent of Their Land? | Modern Farmer

August 19, 2019August 19, 2019African American History, Black History ...

A combination of obscure legal mechanisms and racist institutions enabled—and continues to enable—developers to weasel it away.

Traditional African-American Gospel Songs Deliver Message of Hope and Freedom | The Epoch Times

August 19, 2019August 19, 2019African American History, African American Music ...

EMG Inspired Staff, The Epoch Times A snapshot of mid-century South Philly. Featured Image [dropcap]African[/dropcap]-American spirituals are a valuable part of American history. Born out of an oral tradition that reveals Christian values while describing the hardships of slavery from the period of 1600 to 1870, the music and melodies of these songs are still […]

Their ancestors were enslaved by law. Today, they are graduates of the nation’s preeminent historically black law school. | The New York Times Magazine

August 18, 2019September 2, 2020African American Education, African American History ...

— Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine In the history of the United States, black Americans were the only group for whom it was ever illegal to learn to read or write. And so when emancipation finally came, schools and colleges were some of the first institutions that the freed people clamored to build. Black […]

For centuries, black music, forged in bondage, has been the sound of complete artistic freedom. No wonder everybody is always stealing it. | The New York Times Magazine

August 16, 2019November 19, 2019African American History, African American Music ...

I’ve got a friend who’s an incurable Pandora guy, and one Saturday while we were making dinner, he found a station called Yacht Rock. “A tongue-in-cheek name for the breezy sounds of late ’70s/early ’80s soft rock” is Pandora’s definition, accompanied by an exhortation to “put on your Dockers, pull up a deck chair and […]

Racial Discrimination Is the Legacy South Philly Can’t Seem to Outgrow | Philly Magazine

August 16, 2019August 16, 2019African American History, Black History ...

The land of Rocky has yet to deal with its history as a notoriously segregated place.

Jackie Robinson and 10 Other African American Pioneers in Sports | Biography.com

August 16, 2019September 2, 2020African American Athletes, African American History ...

These black athletes broke barriers, represented their communities and made history with their impressive athletic skills.

Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true. | The New York Times Magazine

August 14, 2019August 14, 2019African American History, Black History ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine ARTWORK BY ADAM PENDLETON. Featured Image [dropcap]My[/dropcap] dad always flew an American flag in our front yard. The blue paint on our two-story house was perennially chipping; the fence, or the rail by the stairs, or the front door, existed in a perpetual state of disrepair, but that […]