Racial slurs fly fast and furious in Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit,” but the most troubling and divisive words uttered onscreen are variations on the simple pronouns “they” and “them.”
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Shame on You Jeff Bezos! Amazon Data Center Threatens a Century-Old Black Va. Neighborhood | The Root
More than a few outraged citizens turned out this weekend to protest the fact that behemoth company Amazon, via its lackey Dominion Virginia, is attempting to seize 50 acres of land belonging to a mostly elderly African-American Northern Virginia community that dates back to slavery.
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Freedmen’s Hospital – First Hospital of its kind to provide medical services to former slaves | Black Then
The Freedmen’s Hospital was founded in Washington D.C, in 1862. It was the first proper hospital of its kind to provide medical services to former slaves. Later on, it was upgraded into a lavish and more proper hospital for African-American community residing in Washington D.C.
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Keith Baird, Linguist Who Fought the Use of ‘Negro,’ Dies at 94 | The New York Times
Keith Baird, a linguist from Barbados who rose to prominence in the 1960s arguing persuasively against the use of the word Negro and in favor of the term Afro-American, died on July 13 in Atlanta. He was 94.
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The first woman to start a bank — a black woman — finally gets her due in the Confederacy’s capital | The Washington Post
Maggie L. Walker started a newspaper. She was the first country’s first woman to found a bank. She was a humanitarian, a teacher, an icon of her community in 1920s Richmond.
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Jack Daniel’s Embraces a Hidden Ingredient: Help From a Slave | The New York Times
LYNCHBURG, Tenn. — Every year, about 275,000 people tour the Jack Daniel’s distillery here, and as they stroll through its brick buildings nestled in a tree-shaded hollow, they hear a story like this:
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3 Alternative History Timelines That Are Way Better Than ‘Confederate’ | OkayAfrica
DIASPORA—I am almost certain that HBO and its artistic partners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, creators of the hit series Game of Thrones did not predict the backlash that has accompanied the announcement of their new project, Confederate—a series, which according to the press release, “takes place in an alternative timeline where the southern states have successfully seceded from the Union, giving rise to a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution.”
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Don’t Let Detroit’s Revival Rest on an Injustice | The New York Times
FIFTY years ago on Sunday the Detroit uprising began. Five days of violence left more than 1,400 buildings burned, more than 7,000 people arrested and 43 people dead — 33 African-Americans and 10 whites.
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Rosa Parks’ Snapshots: Candid Photos Of ‘The Girl On the Bus’ | Flashbak
Rosa Parks, the ‘Girl on the bus’ whose courageous act of defiance triggered the Montgomery bus boycott and fired the Civil Rights Movement in 1955, was no grandstanding celebrity.
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