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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Meet the Black Architect who designed Duke University 37 years before he could have attended it | SHOPPE BLACK
In 1902, when Julian F. Abele graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture, he was the school’s first-ever black graduate. The debonair Philadelphia-born architect went on to design hundreds of elegant public institutions, Gilded Age mansions, and huge swathes of a prestigious then-whites-only university’s campus. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Yet the fact that […]
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NYC Monument Will Honor African-American Family Displaced to Make Way for Central Park | Smithsonian.com
But the project has drawn criticism, particularly because the monument will stand some 20 blocks north of Seneca Village’s historic location
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Watch: The 1619 Project, Live at the Smithsonian | The New York Times Magazine
Please join us online today for a conversation about how history is defined — and redefined — featuring historians, journalists and policymakers.
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The FBI Spends a Lot of Time Spying on Black Americans | The Intercept
THE FBI HAS come under intense criticism after a 2017 leak exposed that its counterterrorism division had invented a new, unfounded domestic terrorism category it called “black identity extremism.” Since then, legislators have pressured the bureau’s leadership to be more transparent about its investigation of black activists, and a number of civil rights groups have […]
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Prince Memoir, ‘The Beautiful Ones,’ Brings To Life A Vision In One’s Mind | NPR WAMU 88.5
I’m a longtime Prince fan. I would listen to his raunchy songs with the sound turned down low so my parents couldn’t hear, because even before I understood a lot of the double entendre in his lyrics, I sensed they — and he — were naughty. And, of course, my parents confirmed. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Once […]
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A Forgotten Lynching In Atlanta | WABE 90.1
By Stephannie Stokes, WABE 90.1 The first country-wide memorial to African-American victims of lynching opened last year in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. While it’s called the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the site is not government funded. It was built by the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal nonprofit that defends against wrongful convictions and racial discrimination. […]
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‘Watchmen’ recreates the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, exposing viewers to an ugly chapter | NBC News
The facts of the Tulsa massacre appeared to have been unknown to many “Watchmen” viewers, who expressed their disbelief on social media.
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Birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | Equal Justice Initiative
By EJI, Equal Justice Initiative On April 15, 1960, black college students guided by civil rights activist Ella Baker formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at Shaw University in North Carolina. Inspired by the sit-ins that college students waged throughout the South in February 1960, Ella Baker organized a conference at Shaw University to bring […]
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When the white establishment ignored these black photographers, the Kamoinge collective was born | Timeline
Based in 1960s Harlem, they challenged the way stories of black lives were told, and who got to tell them
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