Plantation museums could be ideal venues for students to learn about the nation’s history of race-based slavery, but only if they stop whitewashing the horrors of what took place on their grounds.
Most youth in a Waterloo region study were found to have never been taught by a Black teacher.
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With a few notable exceptions, public monuments across the United States are overwhelmingly white and male. A movement is slowly growing to tell a more inclusive history of the American experience.
Septimius Severus was an emperor who was born in Roman Africa.
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We can’t judge the Roman period by our standards and assume that it was predominantly White.
Mansa Musa, the king of Mali, approached by a Berber on camelback, from The Catalan Atlas, 1375.
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By looking back at my dad’s music collection I understand more clearly that the music I listened to as a child shaped my personality, destiny and view of the world.
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.
Henry ‘Box’ Brown’s arrival in Philadelphia.
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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.
Baker will be the sixth woman, first entertainer and first Black woman to enter after a successful petition from her family and fans.
George Green – the son of distiller Nathan ‘Nearest’ Green – was one of seven generations of the Green family who worked for the Jack Daniel’s distillery.
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Black Americans’ contributions to some of the country’s most iconic dishes and spirits are finally starting to be recognized in the media and in museum exhibitions.
A June 2021 protest to keep Dunbar Elementary School in St. Louis from becoming a virtual-only school.
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A professor of urban education argues that an epidemic of majority-Black public school closings is hurting already vulnerable communities across the country.
Playing with syntax, capitalization and punctuation marks can upend narratives put forth by the mainstream media.
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More Americans are learning about the 1921 massacre in the prosperous Black section of Tulsa known as the ‘Black Wall Street.’ For Gregory Fairchild, it is a part of his family history.
Adding Black studies to university curricula in Canada has been an upward battle.
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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.
An early 20th-century NAACP map showing lynchings between 1909 and 1918. The maps were sent to politicians and newspapers in an effort to spur legislation protecting Black Americans.
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