Social justice
fromThe Nation
5 days agoSelma Still Matters
A new definition of American identity is emerging, but it faces significant threats from ongoing systemic issues and challenges.
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History
fromSmithsonian Magazine
2 weeks agoNine Black College Students Were Arrested in 1961 for Reading at a Segregated Public Library. Their Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement Have Long Been Overlooked
The Tougaloo Nine staged a sit-in at a segregated library in 1961, significantly impacting the desegregation movement in Mississippi.
New York Yankees
fromCentral Current
1 month agoSean Kirst: Eighty years after Jackie Robinson's minor league heroics, a spotlight on his courage and pain in Syracuse
Syracuse's current baseball team, the Mets, directly descends from the Montreal Royals who signed Jackie Robinson in 1946, making the city integral to breaking baseball's color barrier.
History
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoWhy Your Life Is Positively Impacted by Black History Month
Black American history is integral to U.S. history and shapes global popular culture; understanding this history through unlearning misconceptions and learning truth promotes psychological well-being and societal equity.
fromAxios
2 months agoAmerica's 250th anniversary collides with a renewed fight over Black history
Following presidential custom, Trump issued a National Black History Month proclamation on Feb. 3 that maintained "black history is not distinct from American history - rather, the history of Black Americans is an indispensable chapter in our grand American story." Yes, but: Its rhetoric, critics say, stands in tension with the Trump administration's recent actions, raising questions about whether commemoration without context ultimately obscures more than it honors.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoA white man's war, a Black man's fight': the eye-opening story of Black soldiers in Vietnam
Carefully, he takes out a flier, yellowed and brittle with age. The text at the top is Vietnamese. Underneath there is English. It reads: Colored Gl's! The South Vietnamese people, who are struggling for their independence and freedom, are friends with the American colored people being victim of barbarous racial discrimination at home. Your battlefield is right in the USA! Your enemy is the war lords in the White House and the Pentagon!
Social justice
fromSmithsonian Magazine
2 months agoHistory Remembered This Black Medal of Honor Recipient for the Two Worst Days of His Life. A New Book Dives Into the Vietnam Vet's Story
"These five soldiers, in their separate moments of supreme testing, summoned a degree of courage that stirs wonder and respect and an overpowering pride in all of us," he continued. "Through their spectacular courage, they set themselves apart in a very select company. They represent the contribution of more than half a million young Americans to a world of order and of peace."
History
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months agoCivil rights pioneer says after almost 70 years, story of the Little Rock Nine still 'resonates' | CBC News
At 84, Minnijean Brown-Trickey says she has "done it all." Long before her work as an anti-racist educator and environmental campaigner in Canada, she demonstrated enormous courage as one of the Little Rock Nine a group of Black teenagers who integrated Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957. Minnijean Brown was 15 years old when she decided that she wanted to attend the all-white school, which was closer to her home, instead of Horace Mann High School
Social justice
fromSmithsonian Magazine
2 months agoHistory Remembered This Black Medal of Honor Recipient for the Two Worst Days of His Life. A New Book Dives Into the Vietnam Vet's Story
"These five soldiers, in their separate moments of supreme testing, summoned a degree of courage that stirs wonder and respect and an overpowering pride in all of us," he continued. "Through their spectacular courage, they set themselves apart in a very select company. They represent the contribution of more than half a million young Americans to a world of order and of peace."
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