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VideoForty Years Later, We Remember Fred Hampton’s Life and Legacy
by Guest Columnist on December 4 2009, 1:01PM
By Juell Stewart Today marks the 40th anniversary of the murder of Fred Hampton, a gifted leader and community organizer who was poised to become the Black Panther Party’s Chief of Staff before the Chicago Police assassinated him on December…
Topics: History
“Good White Stock”: Child Refugees of the British Empire
by Michelle Chen on November 26 2009, 5:47AM
Forced migration, displacement, and racial social engineering are ugly modern phenomena that we typically associate with the denigration of oppressed racial and religious groups. But we recently got a glimpse of a colonization effort that in some ways inverted…
Topics: History, Immigration
Not Everybody Loved Hominid Fossil “Lucy”
by Guest Columnist on November 25 2009, 6:43PM
By Adebe D.A. It’s 150 years later, and we’re still debating Darwin’s good old Origin of Species. A new exposition center, The Discovery Times Square Exposition, was launched in New York City, and featured the 3.2 million-year-old fossil known as…
Topics: History
Kids Reenacting First Thanksgiving with Smallpox Blankets
by Yvonne Yen Liu on November 25 2009, 11:08AM
Kids say the darnedest things. Especially when they voice social truths about history. Here, kids reenact the First Thanksgiving, how it really went down. The white settlers greet the American Indians as “savages”, greedily eat the food, strong-arm the…
Topics: History
An Overdue Gesture: Birmingham Protesters Pardoned
by Michelle Chen on August 12 2009, 4:59PM
It’s about time. The Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama seeks to put a small stitch in wounds left over from the Civil Rights Movement, by issuing a blanket pardon to activists arrested during demonstrations, sit-ins and marches of the era….
Pioneering Black Cover Girl Naomi Sims Dies
by Jorge Rivas on August 4 2009, 10:22AM
Naomi Sims died of breast cancer on August 1, 2009, aged 61, in Newark, New Jersey. She was born in Oxford, Mississippi, the youngest of three daughters. She was ostracized by her community because of her color and height. But…
Topics: History
Obama, Gates and Crowley: The Clink Heard Around The World
by Jorge Rivas on July 31 2009, 4:15AM
President Barack Obama, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sergeant James Crowley toast at the start of their meeting in the Rose Garden of the White House, July 30, 2009. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza Thank Goodness…
Topics: History
by Jorge Rivas on July 17 2009, 10:38AM
Yesterday the University of California Board of Regents voted to grant special honorary degrees to hundreds of men and women forced to leave their studies at the University of California as a result of the internment of people of Japanese…
Topics: History
Racializing Uighurs: The Story of Internal Colonialism in China
by Yvonne Yen Liu on July 9 2009, 6:20PM
China extends 3,400 miles from the west to the east and falls into five different time zones. Yet, the country operates on a single standard of time, eight hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, all year round based on…
Topics: History
by Adrienne Maree Brown on May 20 2009, 11:31AM
via www.adriennemareebrown.net/blog yesterday was malcolm x’s 84th birthday. happy birthday el-hajj malik el-shabazz. here’s a wonderful post from grace lee boggs on knowing malcolm. today i’ve been thinking about the violence of last night here in Oakland, and the lessons…
Topics: History
What’s so special about February?
by Michelle Chen on February 13 2009, 2:11PM
Amid the confusion and excitement about the shape of racial politics under the new administration, the idea of Black History Month has taken on new shades of appreciation—and derision. Some thoughts about the purpose of Black History (or African…
Topics: History
by Adrienne Maree Brown on October 14 2008, 9:33AM
tnews is reporting this economic crisis as shaking down from the upper echelons of corporate power, but I feel it rumbling up through our foundations, souls of displaced indigenous warriors and runaway slaves, a spiritual reckoning that can’t be bought out, smoothed over.
Topics: History
Four Little Girls Who Changed the World
by Jonathan Adams on September 16 2008, 2:14PM
On September 15, 1963, members of the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four little Black girls, none older than fourteen years old, were killed in that bombing. Their deaths, like the death…
Topics: History
by Jonathan Adams on June 23 2008, 9:16AM
First-time filmmaker Katrina Browne makes a troubling discovery - her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine fellow descendants set off to retrace the Triangle Trade: from their old hometown in Rhode…
Topics: History
by Jonathan Adams on June 19 2008, 10:12AM
Celebrated on June 19, Juneteenth commemorates the day when word about the abolition of slavery finally reached Texas in 1865. Since then, Juneteenth has been a day of celebration for many African Americans, a de facto second Independence Day…
Topics: History
by Jonathan Adams on June 11 2008, 10:24AM
This weekend, on June !4th, we will celebrate Flag Day. If you, like me, have no idea what happens on this day, Wikipedia says, “the president will issue a proclamation urging U.S. citizens to fly the American flag for…
Topics: History
King’s Legacy Not Set in Stone
by Jonathan Adams on May 20 2008, 9:20AM
H/T Too Sense Eugene Robinson writes in his column today about the controversy surrounding the statue of Martin Luther King commissioned by the US Commission on Fine Arts to serve as his national monument in Washington and compares the…
Topics: History
by Guest Columnist on March 9 2007, 1:47PM
(www.sojournproject.com/) RaceWire brings you another moving I-Narrative about race—this time a stark reflection on a Selma march Theresa Calpotura re-enacted some years back that brought her face to face with what Senators Obama and Clinton, even after their visit…
Topics: History
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