by News Headlines | Jan 19, 2022 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
As Charleston’s growth accelerates, our community must continually question what parts of our landscape we are willing to fight for and clarify what is essential to our culture and history. African American settlement communities are an important part of the...
by News Headlines | Jan 19, 2022 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black News-Africa and Diaspora, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
Beverley Bryan loved reading right from childhood. It was through reading books from authors such as James Baldwin and Richard Wright that she came to know more about race, particularly what it meant to be Black and a minority. She followed it up with sermons from...
by News Headlines | Jan 19, 2022 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
As we recognize the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday this January 17, it’s worth reflecting on the road to a national commemoration of our most famous civil rights leader. The momentum toward a federal King holiday began almost immediately after King’s...
by News Headlines | Jan 18, 2022 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
One year after California created America’s first official task force on reparations for Black slavery, every question remains open: Will there be reparations and if so, what shape should they take and who should pay them? Of course, Blacks were never the only victims...
by News Headlines | Jan 18, 2022 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Imagine the scene: A middle-aged, still youthful African American sits at an outdoor café on the Italian Riviera, in the town of San Remo, sometime in August 1924. Barely taller than the little children playing in the street before him, the man is dressed in...
by News Headlines | Jan 18, 2022 | Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Inventions like the spinning jenny and the water wheel transformed the way goods were produced and energy was harnessed during the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. They played a major role in the radical transformations that occurred under industrialization,...
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