Three weeks later than originally scheduled, Norfolk schools were finally ready to open. Well, most of them. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On Sept. 29, 1958, 48 of Norfolk’s schools welcomed students – but the doors of six were padlocked and under police guard. Maury, Norview and Granby high schools and Northside, Norview and Blair junior highs remained […]
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Africa makes a scene: Best contemporary art fairs of 2020 | Al Jazeera
From South Africa to Morocco, fairs including new and established creatives are drawing art lovers and buyers alike. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] African art has been having a very long moment. Over the past 10 years, contemporary artists from the continent – from the Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui to Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu to South African photographer […]
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Unita Blackwell Risked It All So Black Mississippians Could Vote | The New York Times Magazine
She was arrested dozens of times, and Klan members threw Molotov cocktails into her yard — but that didn’t stop her fight for civil rights. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] On an afternoon thick with Mississippi heat, Unita Blackwell sat on the front porch of her shotgun house with her friend Coreen, drinking homemade beer, waiting for something […]
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What Louis Armstrong Really Thinks | The New Yorker
On October 31, 1965, Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong gave his first performance in New Orleans, his home town, in nine years. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] At twelve, he marched in parades for the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys, where he was given his first cornet. But he had publicly boycotted the city since its banning of integrated bands, […]
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UVA grants full alumni status to black nurses who earned it decades ago | UVA Magazine
Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, UVA Magazine CLAUDE MOORE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY. Featured Image [dropcap]S[/dropcap]ome 20 years ago, longtime friends Louella Walker (Nurs ’58) and Mary Jones (Nurs ’61) were browsing a former teacher’s estate sale when they unearthed a brown bag filled with black-and-white photos. Staring back at them were their own faces, alongside those of […]
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Busing Ended 20 Years Ago. Today Our Schools Are Segregated Once Again | TIME
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, TIME Accompanied by motorcycle-mounted police, school buses carrying African American students arrive at formerly all-white South Boston High School on September 12, 1974. In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of busing as a mechanism to end racial segregation because black children were still attending segregated schools. White children had […]
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How white women’s “investment” in slavery has shaped America today |Vox
White women are sometimes seen as bystanders to slavery. A historian explains why that’s wrong.
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The Lost Promise of Reconstruction | The New York Times
Can we reanimate the dream of freedom that Congress tried to enact in the wake of the Civil War?
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Racial Discrimination Is the Legacy South Philly Can’t Seem to Outgrow | Philly Magazine
The land of Rocky has yet to deal with its history as a notoriously segregated place.
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Willie Reed, who risked his life to testify in the Emmett Till murder trial, dies at 76 | The Washington Post
Willie Reed did not know Emmett Till, the young black man whose murder in the Mississippi Delta became one of the most infamous lynchings in the history of the Jim Crow South. Mr. Reed saw him only once — on Aug. 28, 1955, during the last hours of Till’s life — in the back of […]
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