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A Curriculum for Black Youth Activism | AAUP

February 21, 2020April 9, 2020African American Activist, African American Author ...

What is the source of black youth activism? What nurtures it, and how has it evolved over time? Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism By Jelani M. Favors. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. What is the source of black youth activism? What nurtures […]

6 myths about the history of Black people in America | Vox

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020African American History, Black History

Six historians weigh in on the biggest misconceptions about black history, including the Tuskegee experiment and enslaved people’s finances. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] To study American history is often an exercise in learning partial truths and patriotic fables. Textbooks and curricula throughout the country continue to center the white experience, with Black people often quarantined to a […]

Don’t pit slavery descendants against black immigrants. Racism doesn’t know the difference. | USA Today

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020African American History, Black History

An anti-African, anti-black-immigrant stance is shortsighted. As we celebrate Black History Month, we should not divide the black community. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Should African American/black identity be defined by descendants of slavery, or by African ancestry? This increasingly bitter debate in the black community is undermining the spirit of Black History Month. At the center of […]

Author of ‘Decolonial Daughter’ discusses motherhood, racism and her letters to her European son | New York Amsterdam News

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020African American Author

Brooklyn-born author Lesley-Ann Brown decided to write her book, “Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to Her European Son” to express all of the intricacies of life and Blackness in extremely different geographical settings. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Brown moved to Copenhagen, Denmark 18 years ago, where she had a son. The book is a collection […]

Oprah loves this N.J.-based after school program so much, she just gave it $5M | NJ.com

February 20, 2020March 30, 2020KOLUMN Magazine

Judith Griffin was at a loss for words for about 90 seconds when she got the phone call last September. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Rebecca Sykes, then president of the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation, was on the phone with some jarring news. “I was speechless,” Griffin said, recalling the phone call. “Stunned is the word.” – Judith […]

‘Tidal wave of voter suppression’ washes over states, lawyer says | NBC News

February 18, 2020February 18, 2020African American Politics, African American Vote ...

“They can do it electronically, they can do it digitally and in ways we never thought about when I was coming along,” said Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] law will make elections fairer In Texas, officials in mostly white Waller County, citing cost concerns, announced that they would not make an early voting site […]

There Have Been 10 Black Senators Since Emancipation | The New York Times

February 17, 2020April 9, 2020African American History, African American Politics

Elected 150 years ago, Hiram Revels was the first. A few days ago, 300 people gathered in the Old State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the election of Hiram Revels as the nation’s first African-American member of Congress. As nearly everyone knows, in the nation’s more than two centuries of […]

Why I’m sick of “woke” culture | Salon

February 17, 2020February 17, 2020African American Culture

The more affluent control the narrative so being “woke” will be hot until the rest of black America gets a voice [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Big bruh, I got these #StayWoke shirts for twenty dollars!” said the dude I’ve bought my incense from for over five years now. His shop is just a little ways away from […]

Ten “Must Watch” Black History Documentaries | PBS

February 17, 2020February 17, 2020African American History, Black History

Documentaries can open windows to our past. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Through the lens of talented filmmakers, we can re-live iconic moments in history like the 1963 March on Washington or climb aboard a Greyhound bus to join the Freedom Riders on their journey through the Jim Crow South. Documentaries offer rich insight into our society and […]

They Came Before Tiger Woods: Wake-Robin Golf Club, Inc | Praise 104.1

February 14, 2020February 14, 2020African American Sports

For Black History Month, WOL News Talk 1450 AM, WYCB My Spirit 1340 and Praise 104.1 will be taking a look at golfers who came before Tiger Woods and the struggles to play the game in a segregated society. Today we take a look at the Royal Golf Club. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Royals are brother […]