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How the 14th Amendment’s Promise of Birthright Citizenship Redefined America
The 14th Amendment was ratified 150 years ago. Here’s how it attempted to stop plans to make the U.S. a white man’s country.
NAACP sues Connecticut over ‘prison gerrymandering’
The suit coming from the NAACP is part of larger effort to fight practices that the NAACP argues are attempts to suppress minority voting via prison-based gerrymandering.
More police, criminalization and gang suppression will not end homelessness in San Francisco
This article is written about homelessness and wealth inequality in San Francisco and the way homelessness has been criminalized and is being policed.
Queer Love in Color
This article from the New York Times contains intimate interviews and photographs of black, queer couples.
Monticello recognizes the rest of Thomas Jefferson’s children
“President Thomas Jefferson was the father of his slave Sally Hemings’ children. Therefore, Monticello, where they lived and worked, is now as much the family home of my Hemings cousins and all the other slave descendants as it is mine,” says Jefferson’s 6th great-grandson.
Hidden portraits: African American life gets a spotlight
This article describes the photographs of unknown African Americans from the 20th century that are being displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
White Kid Wears KKK Costume To School As An Assignment… With Teacher’s Approval
Kid wears KKK costume to school to honor Klan leader.
Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education Get Sued for Abandoning Discrimination Complaints
Betsy DeVos abandons discrimination complaints from the Dept. of Education. NAACP sues as a result.(See link to their complaint in this article.)
Black Women Leaders, Then And Now
This article touches on some of the radical black women who have been apart of the Black Power Movement all the way to the current women leading the Black Lives Matter movement. Over the past decades, these women have also been left out of recorded history.
Milwaukee museum pulls black people ‘out of the shadows of history’
By Sophie Bolich, Max Nawara, and Aly Prouty, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service Editor’s note: This is one of an occasional series of articles about the people and places of 53206. The museum sits behind a locked door in an inconspicuous red brick building on the corner of 27th and Center streets. To enter, visitors have to ring the…
Accepting Rights Award, Colin Kaepernick Decries ‘Lawful Lynching’
By The Associated Press AMSTERDAM — Amnesty International gave the former N.F.L. quarterback Colin Kaepernick its Ambassador of Conscience Award on Saturday for his kneeling protest of racial injustice, which began a sports movement and might have cost him his job. Eric Reid, one of Kaepernick’s former San Francisco 49ers teammates, presented him with the…
‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum
Ida B. Wells was an anti-lynching activist whose name is often forgotten. Her great-granddaughter is looking to change that. This article details how activists are remembering Wells.
AfriCOBRA: the collective that helped shape the black arts movement
This article touches on AfriCOBRA, an organization that helped push the black arts movement forward.
Trailblazing America’s Black Holocaust Museum poised to reopen
By Mary Louise Schumacher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Near the end of his presidency, Barack Obama stood in front of one of the most spectacular museums ever erected on the National Mall and spoke about embracing hard truths. “Yes, a clear-eyed view of history can make us uncomfortable,” he said at the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum…
America’s segregated shores: beaches’ long history as a racial background
Schools, neighborhoods, and public spaces were segregated during the Jim Crow era. This piece touches on how America’s beaches and recreational areas were segregated during that time.
There Goes the Neighborhood: How Food Helps Drive Gentrification
When talking about gentrification, housing is talked about as a main contributor. This article discusses how food can help drive the gentrification of black neighborhoods like Harlem.
A radical archive arrives at Harvard
Harvard University acquired and is currently in the process of archiving educator and activist Angela Davis’ work. The archivists estimate the collection will be available in 2019.
How the Obsidian Collection is Bringing Black Newspapers to Google
The Obsidian Project is digitizing black press from the Great Migration, Civil Rights, and Jim Crow era and making virtual exhibits available to the public for free.
Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy
This extensive report, including an executive summary, data, maps, and findings, describes the history and locations of monuments to the Confederacy around the country. It details the current controversy surrounding their removal.
Oscar-winning Screenwriter from Milwaukee to Direct “The American Way”
John Ridley, who won an Academy Award for writing “12 Years a Slave,” is adapting his “The American Way: Those Above And Those Below” comic series exploring racial issues through the superhero genre.
Help Bring ABHM Home! Museum’s New Space Rises in Bronzeville
ABHM announces its restoration as a physical museum. A $7 million capital (building fund) campaign will enable the museum to be housed on its former site but on the ground floor of a brand new apartment building in Milwaukee’s historic Bronzeville neighborhood.