Posts Tagged ‘American history’
White Social Studies Teacher Fired For Teaching a Racist Slavery Lesson Wants to Sue for Reverse Racism
Racist slavery lesson results in reverse discrimination suit by fired white social studies teacher.
Read MoreHas Hurricane Florence Destroyed Records of America’s Slave Trade?
Hurricane Florence has left much of the southeastern United States in a state of disarray. Archives and records containing information on the slave trade may have been damaged from the flood waters and the after-effects.
Read MoreHow Enslaved Chefs Helped Shape American Cuisine
The southern United Stated is known for both its food and hospitality, both of which can be traced to slavery.
Read MoreBlack Suffrage: Slavery, citizenship, and securing the right to vote in Wisconsin
Descendants of slaves continue their long fight for voter rights in Wisconsin.
Read MoreWhite Kid Wears KKK Costume To School As An Assignment… With Teacher’s Approval
Kid wears KKK costume to school to honor Klan leader.
Read MoreBlack 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.
Read MoreMilwaukee 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…
Read MoreSomebody lied: Education alone can’t dismantle white supremacy
By: Andre Perry: hechingerreport.org Americans like to think that if individuals are educated in great schools, they can pull themselves up by their proverbial bootstraps and bring their families with them. No matter if obstacles such as bad policing, weak labor markets and discriminatory housing policies litter our path. We believe that a good education can…
Read MoreWhen Jack Daniel’s Failed to Honor a Slave, an Author Rewrote History
The annals of history are never dead and gone, only hidden effectively from the masses. Jack Daniel’s Whiskey Disterilly and its birth, is but one of those hidden facts uncovered for the World to learn of, to see of with one’s own eyes. Finally, the inclusion of the co- owner of the namesake “whiskey,” a man whom was a slave called Nearest Green, has his due in the revision of the history around the brew to include Green whom may also be the actual creator of the innocuous concoction called whiskey.
Read MoreThe Meaning of Independence Day for Milwaukee’s People of Color
This article explores why Independence Day and patriotism in America mean something different to the African/African-American community than to white Americans. It shows how Black Americans have endured vastly differing experiences from white Americans, because unalienable rights supposed afforded in America do not apply, have not applied, to them.
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