Bayard Rustin led a long and complicated life dedicated to the fight for equal rights. Targeted by the FBI, Rustin became a close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.
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Artículos sobre Black History Month
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Instead of using the secret routes along the Underground Railroad to find freedom in the North, thousands of enslaved Black people fled to free Black communities in Southern slaveholding states.
A collaborative curatorial project is cherishing every little relational trace of Black lives found in archives in a city long defined by histories of Canadian whiteness.
Ensuring that every Black youth sees Back teachers at school is one critical piece of addressing systemic racism in schools.
Black writers like Charles Chesnutt had to contend with a dilemma writers today know all too well: give the audience and editors what they want, or wallow in obscurity.
Nationalist myth has associated ‘true Mexicanness’ with being ‘meztizo’ — a racial and cultural mix of Indigenous and Spaniard, even while the state enacted policies to assimilate Indigenous Peoples.
In China, Robeson continues to be remembered as a loyal friend celebrated for popularizing what became China’s national anthem and building solidarity between peoples of China and African Americans.
Our food systems are failing to feed all of us.
In this episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we pick apart what is broken and ways to fix it with two women who battle food injustice.
Black British women have been staging plays in recent years about Britain’s role in slavery, a history the country is too eager to forget.
James McCune Smith was the first African American to receive a medical doctorate from a university. He dedicated his life to fighting injustice.
Nottingham Black Archive is recovering the stories of those who made important contributions to the national story of Black British history. The UK needs more like it.
Stories about alternative worlds can be a powerful way of critiquing the problems of our own world.
Abolition in the UK tends to focus on the work of Yorkshireman William Wilberforce but there were many Black abolitionists whose tireless work has been forgotten.
When COVID-19 first appeared, some called it the great equalizer. But the facts quickly revealed a grim reality: COVID-19 disproportionately impacts racialized communities.
Cameras played a critical role in the quest for social equality for Black Americans in the post-slavery era.
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.
Carl James and Kulsoom Anwer discuss the injustices and inequalities in the Canadian education system.
The writer and zen priest Reverend angel Kyodo williams speaks about the pain of racism, how she uses meditation to combat it — and become a stronger anti-racist activist in America today.
Principales colaboradores
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Associate Professor, Performance, Toronto Metropolitan 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, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Manitoba
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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, UMass 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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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
