Posts Tagged ‘Civil Rights’
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.
Read MoreAmerica’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.
Read MoreHow 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.
Read MoreDon’t Go to Mo.,… NAACP Issues Travel Advisory
African-Americans historically have subjectively lived in a world of racially based insecurities, malignment, threats, and even death throughout the United States. It seems to be “just a way of life,” for African-American peoples, still?Well, in the State of Missouri, there continues to be more of the same racially biased behaviors and attitudes bringing forth renewed restrictions in mobility brought about by new or renewed laws in the state of Missouri. According to the NAACP, Laws remenicent of days of Jim Crow, that dictated where, when, and how African-Americans can travel without threat of harm or death. Therefore, this law now has brought forth an urgency making it necessary to introduce travel codes and awareness methods and measures for the safety of African-Americans traveling within and throughout the State of Missouri.
Read MoreNAACP -On The Road To Change Part 1 – Civil Rights Organization Evolving To Tackle Modern Challenges
NAACP makes sweeping changes to their organization platform in order to better meet the modern day challenges that African-Americans face. Challenges representative of days ago, like Jim Crow legacies, laws, unjust judicial systems, housing covenants. educational barriers and restrictions of mobility in and throughout America for African Americans. New leadership is installed, new strategies toward improvement and greater inclusiveness of the youth is most important to how we effect change in the organization. Start by seeking opportunities that reach out and retain activists and activism involving youth of today.
Read MoreFighting for Black Lives in Colombia: At War’s End, the Search for a Seat at the Table
Racism in America has been the forefront of many conversations and social media outlets, but that is not the case in Colombia although blacks there experience it everyday. Well, they are taking a stance and letting the world know that black lives in Colombia matter too.
Read MoreNew Report Reveals Racial Bias In California’s Traffic Court System
A new report shows that California’s current policies for those unable to pay are disproportionately affecting Blacks and Latinos.
Read MoreCivil Rights Era Poet Shares How to Create Civility in Today’s Society
From:Huffington Post- Black Voices Written By: Kristina Puga Writer and activist Eugene Ethelbert Miller discussed his love for writing and history by stating: “I wanted to be involved in every aspect of writing about it,” says Miller about the politically-charged time, as sharply and energetically as if it were just yesterday. “It was just like now…
Read MoreSchool Tries To Censor BLM Article. These Students Had The Final Say.
In a recent post, “School Tries To Censor BLM Article. These Students Had The Final Say” Zahara Hill sheds light on young black voices taking a stand for racial injustice.
Read MoreMy Black History: The Case for Black Art in an Anti-Presidential Era
From: The Root Authored by: Maiysha Kai In “My Black History: The Case for Black Art in an Anti-Presidential Era”, Maiysha Kai explains the power black art holds in the current political state of the United States. She explains how, “The Black Arts Movement that followed was a direct response to the loss of our…
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