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Send contributions to: ChickenBones: A Journal / 13219 Kientz Road / Jarratt, VA 23867 -- I became aware of Rudy Lewis’ labor of love a few short months ago during a visit to Kalamu ya Salaam’s e-drum listserv. As soon as I saw the title of the journal I knew it was about Black folks, and the power of the written word. A quick click took me into a journal that’s long on creativity, highlighting well-known, little known, and a little known writers, and commitment to the empowerment of Black folks. I contacted Rudy to ask if he’d consider publishing some of my work. His response was immediate, and a couple of days after I’d forwarded some poems to him—they were part of ChickenBones. What I didn’t know was that this journal has been surviving for the last five years with very little outside financial support. . . If we want journals like this to “thrive” we need to support them with more than our website hits, praise, and submissions for publication consideration. —Peace,
Mary E. Weems (January 2007)
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John Hope Franklin, Scholar Who Transformed African-American History, Dies at 94—He is perhaps best known to the public for his work on President Clinton’s 1997 task force on race. But his reputation as a scholar was made in 1947 with the publication of his book, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans, which is still considered the definitive account of the black experience in America. “My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly,” he said when the 50th anniversary of the book was celebrated in 1997. “That was terribly important. . . . Looking back, I can plead guilty of having provided only a sketch of the work I laid out for myself.” DukeNews John Hope Franklin WPSU Booknotes (Wilson J. Moses) |
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John Hope Franklin WPSU Booknotes Saturday, April 04, 2009 |
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Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African-Americans by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu “Adofo” Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Book Review by Kam Williams |
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March 24, 2009:
Oakland, Toward Radical Spirituality (Marvin
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Notes from the occupied territories (Jean Damu)
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By Eric Holder, Attorney General
"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. |
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Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution---"Desmond and Moore’s fascinating new look at Darwin forces us to revise and expand the way we look at this revolutionary figure, and to see him wrestling with moral as well as scientific questions. And it is a reminder of just how much the issue of slavery loomed over everything in the nineteenth century, including even fields that were apparently far distant." —Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost and Bury the Chains- "This exciting book is sure to create a stir. Already widely admired for their pathbreaking biography of Charles Darwin, Desmond and Moore here give an entirely new interpretation of Darwin’s views on humankind, bringing together scholarship and sparkling narrative pace to explore theories of ape ancestry and racial origins in the Victorian period. Darwin’s part in making the modern world will never be the same again!" —Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, and author of Charles Darwin: Voyaging Darwin the Abolitionist (Bruce Gellerman interviews James Moore, author of Darwin's Sacred Cause |
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National African American History Month 2009 A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America |
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Some African-American Firsts & Inventions / Ebony's Fifty Influential Figures in African-American History African Retentions & Black Contributions / Celebrating Black History 365 |
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Robert J. Norrell. Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington Illustrated. 508 pp. The Belknap Press / Harvard University Press. To the extent that Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) is remembered at all today, he is usually misremembered, which is a travesty...His unwillingness to practice protest politics, however, has earned him the scorn of many modern-day critics, who dismiss him as too meek in his dealings with whites...In Up From History, a compelling biography, Robert J. Norrell restores the Wizard of Tuskegee to his rightful place in the black pantheon...Many criticisms of Washington in more recent decades have echoed those of his contemporary black nemesis, W.E.B. Du Bois…Much has been made of this rivalry, but the relevant point is that the two men differed mainly in emphasis, not goals...Putting their differences into proper perspective is yet another way that Up From History serves as a useful corrective. —Jason L. Riley (Wall Street Journal) |
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The City of Mumbai and the Buddhist Cave at Ajanta By Runoko Rashidi 27 November 2008 |
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An Open Letter to President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan From Educators of African Ancestry |
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Philip Dray. Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen. Houghton Mifflin Company 2008 -- Philip Foner Review In this grand and compelling new history of Reconstruction, Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray shines a light on a little known group of men: the nation's first black members of Congress. These men played a critical role in pushing for much-needed reforms in the wake of a traumatic civil war, including public education for all children, equal rights, and protection from Klan violence. But they have been either neglected or maligned by most historians -- their "glorious failure" chalked up to corruption and "ill-preparedness." In this beautifully written, magnificently researched book, Dray overturns that thinking. He draws on archival documents, newspaper coverage, and congressional records to show that men like P.B.S. Pinchback of Louisiana (who started out as a riverboat gambler), South Carolina's Robert Smalls (who hijacked a Confederate steamer and delivered it to Union troops), and Robert Brown Elliott (who bested the former vice president of the Confederacy in a stormy debate on the House floor) were eloquent, creative, and often quite effective -- they were simply overwhelmed by the brutal forces of reaction. Covering the fraught period between the Emancipation Proclamation and Jim Crow, Dray reclaims the reputations of men who, though flawed, led a valiant struggle for social justice.—Publisher's note |
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Colonial and Early National Financial History A Memo on a Selective Supplemental Bibliography |
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The Beautiful Struggle ( Acklyn Lynch) Why are 1 in 9 young Black men in prison? A Brief for Whitey (Buchanan) Response to Barack Obama Speech on Race . |
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In
More Than Just Race, the Harvard sociologist William
Julius Wilson recaps his own important research over the past 20
years as well as some of the best urban sociology of his peers to
make a convincing case that both institutional and systemic
impediments and cultural deficiencies keep poor blacks from escaping
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But she spoke forcefully on the subject, citing personal and family experience to illustrate "a paradox and contradiction in this country," which "we still haven't resolved." On the one hand, she said, race in the U.S. "continues to have effects" on public discussions and "the deepest thoughts that people hold." On the other, "enormous progress" has been made, which allowed her to become the nation's chief diplomat. "America doesn't have an easy time dealing with race," Miss Rice said, adding that members of her family have "endured terrible humiliations." "What I would like understood as a black American is that black Americans loved and had faith in this country even when this country didn't love and have faith in them — and that's our legacy," she said. WashingtonTimes |
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Jesse Helms, White Racist –What really sets Jesse Helms apart is that he is the last prominent unabashed white racist politician in this country -- a title that one hopes will now be permanently retired. A few editorials and columns came close to saying that. But the squeamishness of much of the press in characterizing Helms for what he is suggests an unwillingness to confront the reality of race in our national life. . . What is unique about Helms—and from my viewpoint, unforgivable -- is his willingness to pick at the scab of the great wound of American history, the legacy of slavery and segregation, and to inflame racial resentment against African Americans. Many of the accounts of Helms's retirement linked him with another prospective retiree, Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Both these Senate veterans switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party when the Democrats began pressing for civil rights legislation in the 1960s. But there is a great difference between them. Thurmond, who holds the record for the longest anti-civil rights filibuster, accepted change. For three decades he has treated African Americans and black institutions as respectfully as he treats all his other constituents. To the best of my knowledge, Helms has never done what the late George Wallace did well before his death -- recant and apologize for his use of racial issues. And that use was blatant. WashingtonPost |
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Obama Reasons with Black Protestor Thirty-one year-old Diop Olugbulu of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement
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African American Family Histories at Monticello "I was born at Monticello...." Peter Fossett, 1898, and Henry Martin, 1914. Over the decades, hundreds could have spoken those words. Below are profiles of a few of those born into slavery at Monticello. For more information about these people, their descendants, and members of other families with ancestral ties to Monticello Plantation Database Monticello Getting Word Monticello Classroom |
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Jesse Helms, White Racist –In 1984, when Helms faced his toughest opponent in Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt, the late Bill Peterson, one of the most evenhanded reporters I have ever known, summed up what "some said was the meanest Senate campaign in history." "Racial epithets and standing in school doors are no longer fashionable," Peterson wrote, "but 1984 proved that the ugly politics of race are alive and well. Helms is their master." A year before the election, when public polls showed Helms trailing by 20 points, he launched a Senate filibuster against the bill making the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. a national holiday. Thurmond and the Senate majority were on the other side, but the next poll showed Helms had halved his deficit. All year, Peterson reported, "Helms campaign literature sounded a drumbeat of warnings about black voter-registration drives. . . . On election eve, he accused Hunt of being supported by 'homosexuals, the labor union bosses and the crooks' and said he feared a large 'bloc vote.' What did he mean? 'The black vote,' Helms said." He won, 52 percent to 48 percent. In 1990, locked in a tight race with an African American Democrat, former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt, Helms aired a final-week TV ad that showed a pair of white hands crumpling a rejection letter, while an announcer said, "You needed that job and you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota." Once again, he pulled through. That is not a history to be sanitized. WashingtonPost |
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Thought of Today—Power that works for righteousness—Finally, there is, somewhere in the Universe a "Power that works for righteousness," and that leads men to do justice to one another. To this power, working upon the hearts and consciences of men, the Negro can always appeal. He has the right upon his side, and in the end the right will prevail. The Negro will, in time, attain to full manhood and citizenship throughout the United States. No better guaranty of this is needed than a comparison of his present with his past. Toward this he must do his part, as lies within his power and his opportunity. But it will be, after all, largely a white man's conflict, fought out in the forum of the public conscience. The Negro, though eager enough when opportunity offered, had comparatively little to do with the abolition of slavery, which was a vastly more formidable task than will be the enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment. —Charles W. Chestnutt |
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Drusilla Dunjee-Houston's Wonderful Ethiopians of the Cushite Empire, Book II Origin of Civilization from the Cushites. Edited by Peggy Brooks-Bertram Review by Larry Obadele Williams |
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Obituary of Joe Walker Muhammad Speaks International Correspondent |
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Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America Film Review by Kam Williams Uncrowned Queens Instrumental in Righting an 86-Year-Old Injustice
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Alberto O. Cappas. An Educational Pledge -- A positive journey for our youth. For Schools: Teachers, Parents, & Students: "One cannot keep hope alive if no plan of action is in place" Check out our Pledge T-Shirt at www.aneducationalpledge.com / Cappas@aol.com |
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Martin R Delany: A Documentary Reader (Levine) Martin Robinson Delany and Edward Wilmot Blyden Race Men and Pioneer Black Nationalists By Runoko Rashidi The Black Presence in the Bible: A Selected Bibliography / Global News: Politics—Literature & the Arts |
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Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past by Ray Raphael / Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect / The Myth of the Negro Past
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The Works of William Sanders Scarborough Black Classicist and Race Leader Edited by Michele Valerie Ronnick |
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Clarence J. Munford: N'COBRA Atlantic Slave Traffic Race and Reparations (book review) Benefits of Whiteness Boukman and His Comrades |
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Black History Month 2009 We went into slavery a piece of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery without a language; we came out speaking the proud Anglo-Saxon tongue. We went into slavery with slave chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands. Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.—Booker Taliaferro Washington After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, — a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.—W. E. B. Du Bois God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.—Marcus Garvey You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression ....If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. And if we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to Earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie, love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.—M. L. King <-------artist Chuck Siler / Celebrating Black History 365 |
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Black History (audio) by Gil Scott-Heron / Gil Scott-Heron & His Music / Army desertion rate highest since 1980 |
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The Exhilarating Generosity of Asa Hilliard By Peggy Brooks-Bertram
Asa G. Hilliard III Obituary If I Ain't African (Glenis Redmond) |
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Racial Integration Has Run Its Course—The plain fact is that a great many white Americans, including many with otherwise liberal views on race, do not want their offspring attending schools with more than a token number of black and Latino children. Whatever their status, they do not wish to be burdened by efforts to correct the results of racial discrimination that they do not believe they caused. Their opposition may not be as violent or as vast as it was during the early years after the Brown decision, but it is widespread, deeply felt, and if history is any indication not likely to change any time soon. Derrick Bell. Desegregations Demise. The Chronicle of Higher Education No Tears for Brown v Board of Education—[Mr. Marshall's] response was that seating black children next to white children in school had never been the point. It had been necessary only because all-white school boards were generously financing schools for white children while leaving black students in overcrowded, decrepit buildings with hand-me-down books and underpaid teachers. He had wanted black children to have the right to attend white schools as a point of leverage over the biased spending patterns of the segregationists who ran schools — both in the 17 states where racially separate schools were required by law and in other states where they were a matter of culture.— Juan Williams Education & History |
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Virginia & the Board of Trade
—The
ruling class took special pains to be sure that the
people they ruled were propagandized in the moral
and legal ethos of white-supremacism. Provisions
were included for that purpose in the 1705 "Act
concerning Servants and Slaves" and in the Act of
1723 "directing the trial of Slaves . . . and for
the better government of Negroes, Mulattos, and
Indians, bond or free." For
consciousness-raising purposes (to prevent "pretense
of ignorance"), the laws mandated that parish clerks
or churchwardens, once each spring and fall at the
close of Sunday service, should read ("publish")
these laws in full to the congregants. Sheriffs were
ordered to have the same done at the courthouse door
at the June or July term of court. . . . The general
public was regularly and systematically subjected to
official white supremacist agitation. It was to be
drummed into the minds of the people that, for the
first time, no free African-American was to dare to
lift his or her hand against a "Christian, not being
a negro, mulatto or Indian"; that African-American
freeholders were no longer to be allowed to vote;
that the provision of a previous enactment [1691]
was being reinforced against the mating of English
and Negroes as producing "abominable mixture" and
"spurious" issue; that, as provided in the 1723 law
for preventing freedom plots by African-American
bond-laborers, "any white person . . . found in
company with any [illegally congregated] slaves" was
to be be fined (along with free African Americans or
Indians so offending) with a fine of fifteen
shillings, or to "receive, on his, her, or their
bare backs, for every such offense, twenty lashes
well laid on."
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Louisiana Case Looks a Lot Like Duke Lacrosse Frame-Up By Kam Williams Nooses and a legal lynching in Jena, Louisiana YouTube - The Jena Six |
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Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Interviewed by Kam Williams |
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School Security Guards Beat Teen over Cake Spill: Palmdale—It all started with a piece of birthday cake, but it ended up with a high school girl being beaten and expelled. The incident, which occurred last week at Knight High School in Palmdale, was caught on a cell phone camera. Michael Brownlee was live in Palmdale with what the girl and her mother plan to do now— Clearly, Injustice is not just in Jena—Cynthia McKinney Leading the Negro into Modernity |
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The First African-American Newspaper By Jacqueline Bacon Book Review by Kam Williams |
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James Edward Jackson Jr.—born in Richmond, Va., on 29 November 1914, the son of James and Clara Kersey Jackson—died 1 September 2007 in Brooklyn. His father was a pharmacist. The family lived in Jackson Ward, a segregated section for Richmond blacks. In 1931 (at 16), Jackson entered Virginia Union University. He graduated three years later with a degree in chemistry. In 1937 (at 22), Jackson received a degree in pharmacy from Howard University. But in his last year at Howard, he helped start the Southern Negro Youth Congress, which organized strikes by tobacco workers, mostly black women, who were paid $5 a week. A union representing 5,000 tobacco workers soon gained recognition. . . . Jackson joined the Communist Party in 1947. He held important positions in the Party and was one of 21 Communist Party members who were indicted in 1951, at the height of the McCarthy era, for, among other things, teaching classes on violent revolution. The case was front-page news around the country. In 1952 Jackson became the Southern secretary for the Party and a staunch advocate of civil rights. NYTimes |
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Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past By Ray Raphael |
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Supreme Courts Halts Racial Integration—“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,” he said. His side of the debate, the chief justice said, was “more faithful to the heritage of Brown,” the landmark 1954 decision that declared school segregation unconstitutional. “When it comes to using race to assign children to schools, history will be heard,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. . . . While Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. joined his opinion on the schools case in full, the fifth member of the majority, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, did not. . . . Justice Kennedy said achieving racial diversity, “avoiding racial isolation” and addressing “the problem of de facto resegregation in schooling” were “compelling interests” that a school district could constitutionally pursue as long as it did so through programs that were sufficiently “narrowly tailored.” . . . “It is not often in the law that so few have so quickly changed so much,” Justice Breyer said. . . . “This is a decision that the court and the nation will come to regret.” . . . Justices John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg signed Justice Breyer’s opinion. Justice Stevens wrote a dissenting opinion of his own, as pointed as it was brief. Linda Greenhouse. Justices Limit the Use of Race in School Plans for Integration. NYTimes |
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The Works of James McCune Smith Black Intellectual and Abolitionist By John Stauffer |
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Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past by Ray Raphael / Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect / The Myth of the Negro Past |
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Cecil Brown's
Dude,
Where's My Black Studies Department -- Thus Africans and Caribbean
Negroes were in many cases less radical, even though much of the
African American radical tradition comes from immigrants, such
as Marcus Garvey, George Padmore, Kwame Toure, Malcolm X and
Farrakhan. As Amina Baraka informed me, "We're all West
Indians." And this is true because kidnapped Africans were
brought to the Caribbean for "the breaking in," then
transferred to North America and elsewhere.
And we must ask ourselves would we rather have a radical
immigrant African in black studies or a reactionary Negro only
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Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction Edited by Chris Green, Rachel Rubin, and James Smethurst |
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Days of US Slavery Closer Than We Think Al Sharpton Learns His Forebears Were Thurmonds’ Slaves Sharpton's great-grandfather was a slave who was owned by relatives of Senator Strom Thurmond,
the longtime arch-segregationist who ran for
president as a Dixiecrat in 1948
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The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, And the Ambiguities of American Reform . Edited by Steven Mintz and John Stauffer A collective effort to present a new kind of moral history, this volume seeks to show how the study of the past can illuminate profound ethical and philosophical issues. More specifically, the contributors address a variety of questions raised by the history of American slavery. How did freedom-personal, civic, and political-become one of the most cherished values in the Western world? How has the language of slavery been applied to other instances of exploitation and depersonalization? To what extent is America's high homicide rate a legacy of slavery? Did the abolitionist movement's tendency to view slavery as a product of sin, rather than as a structural and economic problem, accelerate or impede emancipation? . . . . They also offer fresh perspectives on key individuals, from Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass to Harriet Jacobs and John Brown, and shed new light on the differences between female and male critiques of slavery, the defense of slavery by the South's intellectual elite, and Catholic attitudes toward slavery and abolition. |
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Wreck of the Henrietta Marie --The University of Richmond exhibits artifacts from the Henrietta Marie, a 1699 English merchant slave ship. Discovered by divers in 1972 and fully excavated in 1983, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie is believed to be the world's largest source of tangible objects from the early years of the slave trade. Before sinking in 1700 about 35 miles west of Key West, the ship had dropped off 190 captive Africans to be sold as slaves in Jamaica. “A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie" continues through May 18 and organized by the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society in Key West, Fla., the exhibit also includes beads, weapons, shackles, iron bars, spoons, bottles and medical supplies recovered from the ship. The sounds of human moans echoed from a CD, playing in tandem with narratives from a former slave and the ship's doctor. Reproduction metal shackles dangled from wooden benches. Times Dispatch / Historical Museum / Museum Exhibits |
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Robin Kadison Berson. Marching to a Different Drummer: Unrecognized Heroes of American History Marching Reviews / Anna Julia Cooper / Tunis George Campbell / Elizabeth Freeman / Lucy Craft Laney / Rev. Wesley J. Gaines / Special Order 15 American Women's History See Also the bibliographies of these files Bolden, Tony. The Book of African-American Women: 150 Crusaders, Creators, and Uplifters. Adams Media Corporation, 1996. Kazickas, Jurate, and Lynn Sherr. Susan B. Anthony Slept Here. A Guide to American Women's Landmarks. Random House, 1994 Nevergold, Barbara A. Seals and Peggy Brooks-Bertram. Uncrowned Queens: African American Community Builders. Uncrowned Queens, 2002. Weatherford, Doris. American Women's History. Prentice Hall General Reference, 1994 |
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Major Scholar of Blacks in Antiquity author of Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience |
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Virginia & the Board of Trade
—The
ruling class took special pains to be sure that the
people they ruled were propagandized in the moral
and legal ethos of white-supremacism. Provisions
were included for that purpose in the 1705 "Act
concerning Servants and Slaves" and in the Act of
1723 "directing the trial of Slaves . . . and for
the better government of Negroes, Mulattos, and
Indians, bond or free." For
consciousness-raising purposes (to prevent "pretense
of ignorance"), the laws mandated that parish clerks
or churchwardens, once each spring and fall at the
close of Sunday service, should read ("publish")
these laws in full to the congregants. Sheriffs were
ordered to have the same done at the courthouse door
at the June or July term of court. . . . The general
public was regularly and systematically subjected to
official white supremacist agitation. It was to be
drummed into the minds of the people that, for the
first time, no free African-American was to dare to
lift his or her hand against a "Christian, not being
a negro, mulatto or Indian"; that African-American
freeholders were no longer to be allowed to vote;
that the provision of a previous enactment [1691]
was being reinforced against the mating of English
and Negroes as producing "abominable mixture" and
"spurious" issue; that, as provided in the 1723 law
for preventing freedom plots by African-American
bond-laborers, "any white person . . . found in
company with any [illegally congregated] slaves" was
to be be fined (along with free African Americans or
Indians so offending) with a fine of fifteen
shillings, or to "receive, on his, her, or their
bare backs, for every such offense, twenty lashes
well laid on."
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Ebony's Fifty Influential Figures in African-American History
Four Greats -- Frederick Douglass / W.E.B. Du Bois / Mary McLeod Bethune / Martin Luther King, Jr.. Robert S. Abbott Richard Allen Louis Armstrong Ella Baker James Baldwin Benjamin Banneker Ida B. Wells-Barnett Ralph J. Bunche George Washington Carver Martin R. Delany Charles R. Drew Paul Laurence Dunbar Edward Kennedy Ellington Marcus Garvey Prince Hall Fannie Lou Hamer W.C. Handy Frances E.W. Harper Charles H. Houston Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston |
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Sussex County: A Tale of Three Centuries Public Education in Sussex County in Black and White The Official History of Jerusalem Baptist Church |
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Lynched Mau Mau Leader Dedan Kimathi Honored with Statue in Nairobi -- His Remains Have Yet To Be Found |
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Milton Allimadi: The Hearts of Darkness / Inventing Africa: New York Times / Times Concocted 'Darkest Africa' |
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Uncle Jeff and His Contempos / Teflon Sense of History / Race in US Politics Syllabus / Banneker and Jefferson / Thomas Jefferson's Negro Family The Propaganda of History / Virginia Expresses Profound Regret The 10 Biggest Myths About Black History by Lerone Bennett Jr. The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman (1955) A. Philip Randolph, Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement (1996) |
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Historical Fiction by Eugene Walton |
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Igbos in Virginia Enslaved Igbo and the Foundation of Afro-Virginia Slave Culture and Society A review by Gloria Chuku Igbo Ideograms In Virginia Cemeteries By Rachel Malcolm-Woods |
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Lerone Bennett Bio
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The 10 Biggest Myths About Black
History / Carter
G. Woodson, Father of Black History Books by Lerone Bennett Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America / What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King / Pioneers In Protest, Black Power U.S. A.: The Human Side of Reconstruction 1867-1877 / Great Moments in Black History /
Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream and
The Shaping of Black America
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Atlanta Exposition Address By Booker T. Washington On 18 September 1895, 111 years ago, Booker T. Washington, a Negro spokesman supported by both Northern and Southern white leaders, spoke before a predominantly white audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. For Houston Baker, this ten-minute speech inaugurated "Afro-American modernism." --Houston A. Baker, Jr., Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (1987), pp. 8-9; 15. |
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The Black Experience in America is Unique / The Fact of Blackness (1952) By Frantz Fanon / Election Day Returns |
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The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells Edited by Miriam DeCosta-Willis Foreword by Mary Helen Washington. Afterword by Dorothy Sterling |
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Abell
Report on Under-Funding Baltimore Education Demand for
Career Education Especially High
On the Need to Refurbish Career and Technology Education (CTE) Programs / Conversations with Rodney, Jonathan, Miriam, Tiger, Kam |
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A Dream Deferred: A Mournful, Contrarian Dissection Of the Failed Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education A Review by Debra J. Dickerson May/June 2004 Issue Charles J. Ogletree Jr. All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education Norton, 2005 Derrick Bell. Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform. Oxford University Press, 2005 |
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Clines Reflects on Clemente, Stargell, and the Team of Color by Danny Torres |
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By Alexandria C. Lynch, MS III
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Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes
Statistics on the Inequities Notes on Political Education Moratorium on School Closings in Baltimore |
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Jonathan
Scott files: Heroic Minds:
All the Great Ones Have Been Anti-Imperialist
The Niggerization of Palestine
The Staying Power of Rap
Remembering to Not Forget |
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Rudolph Lewis: Remembering My Adult Education Students The Learning Place Northwest (1990-1993) Poems Learning to be Black Heroes of the Hood Thoughts from the Hood On the Future |
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The Venezuelan Revolution 100 Questions-100 Answers By Chesa Boudin, Gabriel Gonzalez, and Wilmer Rumbos Book Reviewed by Amin Sharif |
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Rodney D. Foxworth, Jr. School Daze A Naïve Political Treatise A Report on a Gathering at Red Emma's Statistics on the Inequities |
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"The Most Dangerous Black Professor in America" Along the Color Line -- February 2006 By Manning Marable Blacks in Higher Education Manning Marable, Black Liberation in Conservative America. South End Press, 1997 |
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The Black Experience in America is Unique / The Fact of Blackness (1952) By Frantz Fanon / Lessons from France |
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Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment What Is the Source of the Dilemma of Black Urban Education? Social Policy? Class Oppression? Race Prejudice? Lack of Personal Responsibility? Responses by Charles, Latorial, Kam, Miriam, Jane, Jeannette, and Rodney |
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Ongoing Struggles in Black Academia -- Dolan Hubbard , "The Color of Our Classroom" Cecil Brown, "What black studies lacks" Floyd Hayes, "Jefferson & Political Philosophy: Notes of Encouragement to Two JHU Students" |
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On Tuesday, March 28, the Center for Africana Studies presented a talk by Dr. Joy Williamson, assistant professor of education at Stanford U. She will discuss the Black Student movement at the U of IL in the 1960s and 1970s. Her book, Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-1975, is must reading. The symposium took place in the Greenhouse, room 110. Perhaps we can learn how to revive and resurrect Black students, and even Black communities. http://ed.stanford.edu/suse/contents/joy_a_williamson.html |
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Atlanta Constitution on Race Problem Origin of Segregation Intermarriage a No-No Who Wants Integration The Problem of Integration The Racial Problem |
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The Meritocracy Myth A Dollars and Sense interview with Lani Guinier Responses to Race as a Decoy for Class by Rodney D. Foxworth, Jr. and Rudolph Lewis |
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Recalls Bogalusa's Deacons for Defense & Justice By Jonathan Tilove |
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Worship of white supremacy, fundamentalism, and capitalism -- It isn't very likely that Americans will get smarter anytime soon. Politicians know that appealing to their worst instincts is usually a winning formula. The corporate run media is not only unhelpful in enlightening the public but is in fact complicit in keeping them in the dark. The New York Times is once again leading the charge in helping the Bush administration push bogus information. This time around Iran is the bogeyman maligned by unnamed sources. It is déjà vu all over again. Belief in American superiority and particularly the superiority of white people, will always win the day and will always keep the nation ignorant. It isn't surprising that politicians evoke the name of Davy Crockett and peddle nonsense about the sun rotating around the earth. After all, leaders can only be a reflection of the people they serve. --Margaret Kimberley, “Freedom Rider: America the Stupid.” |
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Carter G. Woodson, Father of Black History By Lerone Bennett, Jr. |
| Sandra West files: We Are A Dancing People Leslie Garland Bolling Wendy Stand Up with Your Proud Hair! Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance |
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The Black Vanguard & 1970s Repression
The Underlying Concepts of
the Black Manifesto By James Forman, Chairman, United Black Appeal Reparations as a Tactic of Black Liberation -- Or Loosening the Social Controls on Blacks
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Why Facts & Dates Are Not So Important in History: A Discussion about the Nature of History: by Hugh Capel |
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2/4/1913 -10/24/2005 ~A civilized society distinguishes itself by how fairly it treats its constituents~ -mb |
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MAAT: Our New Social Policy by Ata Omom / The Family of Cow Tom / BBC Radio |
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Thomas Jefferson and His Negro Family
By Wilson J. Moses The Eternal Linkage of Literature and Society Dwight David Eisenhower |
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Creative Conflict in African-American Thought Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey Wilson Jeremiah Moses: Teflon Sense of History & Collective Sin A Letter from Wilson Moses Afrotopia Teflon Sense of History |
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Egalitarian Slaveowners A Sexual Defense of Andy Jackson Conversations with Ben, Wilson, Louis, John, Joyce, Anita, Miriam |
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Insurgents -- Martin Luther King at AFL-CIO / LeRoi Jones: Black Man as Victim / LeRoi Jones: Pursued by the Furies / Introduction to Denmark Vesey Confession of John Enslow / Confession of Bacchus Hammet / Commentators on Nathaniel Turner of Southampton / 1831 Confessions / NT TimeLine |
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A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century Edited by Joyce E. King |
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White Privilege Shapes the U.S. / Myths of Low-Wage Workers / Ujamaa / New Deal / Raw Deal / Stalling the Dream by Meizhu Lui |
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Grace Boggs on Reorganizing Urban Schools
The Dropout Challenge Give Detroit Schools a Fresh Start Read Also: Going Beyond Black and White
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Rudolph Lewis: Quality Education for Black & Brown Undermined by Class Oppression & Public Intellectuals |
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First Holocaust in the Western World By Hans Koning |
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Black Insurgents -- Martin Luther King at AFL-CIO / LeRoi Jones: Black Man as Victim / LeRoi Jones: Pursued by the Furies / Introduction to Denmark Vesey The Confession of John Enslow The Confession of Bacchus Hammet / Commentators on Nathaniel Turner / 1831 Confessions / NT TimeLine |
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Ama A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade By Manu Herbstein |
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Should whites wear shackles and chains to reverse history? By Alicia M. Waller
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The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship Edited with an Introduction by Michelle Valerie Ronnick Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Books N Review |
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DuBois Speaks to Africa Delivered to the All-African Congress in 1958 Du Bois' Letter to Yolande 1958 Steve Biko Speaks on Black Consciousness |
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in Negro Education in the District of Columbia (Excerpts) By E. Delorus Preston, Jr. An Archival Search for Sterling Brown Maria Syphax Case Table (Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3) |
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Two Scholars Discuss Afrocentrism as A Racial Ideology: History & Ethics Wilson Jeremiah Moses & Cane Hope Felder |
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The
picture [left] would have appeared shocking to a viewer in the Civil War
era, when it was taken, because it shows a little black boy with a
little white girl on his arm. This is a posture suggestive of
"traditional courtship roles," and it violates taboos
concerning what we would today call, "interracial dating."
But look closely at the caption! They are both
"emancipated slave children!" They are both legally black.
So it is okay for her to take his arm. Whoever distributed
this photo was certainly aware that he/she was making several points,
not the least of which was that "white" girls could be
designated "black" slaves under American law. --Wilson J. Moses
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Up from Slavery A Documentary History of Negro Education (Table) Compiled by Rudolph Lewis |
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Fraternal Lodges Developing & Expanding the Village in Rural Southern Virginia by Stuart W. Doyle
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the Connection of Africans & the Civilized Tribes |
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Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey (2008) Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court in 1954. Six years later, he was at a crossroads. A rising generation of activists were making sit-ins and demonstrations rather than lawsuits the hallmark of the civil rights movement. What role, he wondered, could he now play? When in 1960 Kenyan independence leaders asked him to help write their constitution, Marshall threw himself into their cause. Here was a new arena in which law might serve as the tool with which to forge a just society. In Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey (2008)Mary Dudziak recounts with poignancy and power the untold story of Marshall's journey to Africa |
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