African American History -

The Rise of Civil Rights Tourism in America’s Deep South

August 30, 2016September 3, 2016African American Art, African American Film ...

Over the past three years, new and newly revamped civil rights museums have appeared across the Deep South, proving to be popular tourist attractions and economic engines.

EJI Announces Plans to Build a Museum and National Lynching Memorial

August 24, 2016September 3, 2016African American History, African American Lives ...

The Equal Justice Initiative plans to build a national memorial to victims of lynching and open a museum that explores African American history from enslavement to mass incarceration. Both the museum and memorial will open in Montgomery, Alabama, in 2017.

‘Black Wall Street’ Being Brought to Life by John Legend and Tika Sumpter

August 24, 2016January 5, 2018African American Commuities, African American History ...

One of the darkest moments in American history is being turned into a series.

The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

August 19, 2016September 4, 2016African American Families, African American History ...

American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they’ve failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report “The Negro Family” tragically helped create this system, it’s time to reclaim his original intent.

Grandparents or parents? Coverage of Simone Biles shows that we still don’t know how to talk about adoption

August 16, 2016September 4, 2016African American History, KOLUMN ...

A commentator said Biles’s parents were “NOT her parents;” Twitter revealed that adoption is still cloaked in shame.

An Interview With Former Black Panther Lynn French

August 12, 2016September 4, 2016African American History, African American Lives ...

The fact that the Panther Party, by the time you joined in 1968, was over two-thirds women struck me as amazing.

‘Picturing Children’ Shows More Than A Century Of African-American Childhoods

August 10, 2016September 4, 2016African American Art, African American History ...

[two_fifth padding=”0 25px 0 10px”]BY All Things Considered | PUBLISHER NPR After more than a decade in the making, the Smithsonian’s newest museum is scheduled to open this fall. The National Museum of African American History and Culture will open to the public after a dedication ceremony Sept. 24.[/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”]As a part of […]

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