Cameras played a critical role in the quest for social equality for Black Americans in the post-slavery era.
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Though COVID-19 has killed Black Americans at nearly twice the rate as white Americans, Black people are the least likely racial group to say they’re eager to get the vaccine.
Mapping is one way African Americans fight for equality and help each other navigate a racially hostile landscape.
Members of the nation’s four Black sororities, including Vice President Kamala Harris, commit to lifelong acts of service for their communities.
In the 1950s, Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as ‘just as Jim Crow’ as the one she had attended in the South.
An 1850 act permitted the creation of separate schools for Protestants, Catholics and for any five Black families. Some white people used the act to force Black students into separate institutions.
In the early hours of Feb. 10, 1971, heavily armed officers moved in on a house occupied by Black Panther activists – marking a policing trajectory toward a more militarized response to Black activism.
At the turn of the 20th century, with few children’s books featuring Black characters, one young editor implored his peers to ‘Let us make the world know that we are living.’
In this episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, host Vinita Srivastava and scholar Cheryl Thompson dive into the meaning of the n-word and the 150 years of racism embedded in it.
This is the full transcript for Don’t Call Me Resilient, episode 1: What’s in a word? How to confront 150 years of racial stereotypes and language.
‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ the best seller of the 19th century, is not a relic from the past. The complex Uncle Tom figure still has a hold over Black politics.
Don’t Call Me Resilient is a provocative podcast about race that goes in search of solutions for those things no one should have to be resilient for.
Although millions voted to put her face on the bill in an online poll, many still don’t know the story of her life and the role faith played in it.
My research shows that white trainee teachers are willing to learn and to bring black history into their teaching, but need support to do so.
In a sermon two weeks after MLK’s funeral, civil rights leader, Wyatt Tee Walker, urged young seminarians to be hopeful and take action for making change happen. His sermon has valuable lessons today.
Afrofuturism allows Black people to not only imagine their distant futures but also how to survive the anti-Black present.
Canada’s pioneering Black athletes may be unknown to many, but their efforts paved the way for others who went on to perform at the highest levels.
The Canadian soldiers who took part in one of the biggest feats of the War of 1812 included Black soldiers of the 104th New Brunswick Regiment of Foot.
While segregation was a shameful period in baseball history, the Negro Leagues were a resounding success and an immense source of pride for black America.
Spirituals were created out of the experience of enslaved people in the US. They weren’t songs of anger – but of an abiding belief in the victory of good over evil.
Principales colaboradores
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Assistant Professor, Creative Industries, Ryerson University
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Professor of Education and Affiliate Faculty in Philosophy, University of Cincinnati
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Assistant Professor, RTA School of Media, Faculty of Communication and Design Forum, Ryerson University
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PhD student, Department of Sociology, Carleton University
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Assistant Professor of Secondary Social Studies, West Virginia University
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Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Penn State
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Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Clemson University
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Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Music, Penn State
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Professor of English, Paul Murray Kendall Chair in Biography, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Professor of History, American University School of International Service
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Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor of Geography and Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State
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Associate Professor of U.S. History, High Point University
