by News Headlines | Sep 23, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Ancestry is spotlighting an important, yet often overlooked, part of American history by unveiling the world’s largest digitized and searchable collection of Freedmen’s Bureau and Freedman’s Bank records. This content was originally published...
by Darius | Sep 12, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
How Post-Civil War Reconstruction Failed African Americans After the Civil War, many African Americans were hopeful that this new post-slavery era would bring freedom and equality to all United States citizens. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out that way. Here,...
by News Headlines | Sep 4, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Print A sharecropper subject of the infamous Tuskegee Study. Photo courtesy of CDC ‘Good reason to be anxious about what White people are up to’ An Oakland humanities teacher, Craig Donaldson, says his high school students agree...
by News Headlines | Sep 3, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
This post was written by educator Etha Robinson. My experience learning about Black history as a child was negligent to none. I went to a Catholic school in Mississippi and it was run by white Catholic nuns and there were no Black teachers in any Catholic schools....
by News Headlines | Sep 3, 2021 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Going insane was a luxury. It’s the going, that’s the treat. Going suggests travel, moving. There was no going. The madness was constant and still, sitting there, like a place on a map. The women in the beautifully brutal film 12 Years A Slave were mangled and...
by News Headlines | Sep 1, 2021 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
You may never have heard of Oscar Micheaux, but out of his “impoverished consciousness-raising exploitation potboilers,” writes critic Dave Kehr, “the American black cinema was born.” Kehr wrote that in a brief review of Micheaux’s Murder in Harlem, a “1935 mystery...
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