Andy Charrier
Technology and Social Justice email: charrier@gmail.com Twitter: @charrier
Index. How do we commemorate heroes like Susie King Taylor?
Taylor forged a path for African American nursing and education - both during and after the war. And yet, many Americans don’t know about her achievements or her memoir. Unlike other Civil War nurses, who received sizable pensions and character sketches in commemorative history books, Susie King Taylor’s life went largely unnoticed in Reconstruction America. Historians note that Reconstruction-era writers—particularly those hailing from the North—did little to ease race-based inequalities through their choice of subject matter. On Horseback. Twitter.
To Be Filed Dec 2019. National Gallery 2019. Seeing Our Students. ‘The Hate U Give’ Cast on the Correct Response to ‘I Don’t See Color’ I found the laptop that I originally wrote The Hate U Give on - it was literally held together by tape. Shout out to @diversebooks - the Walter Grant allowed me to replace it right before it died. Incubate a better world in the minds & hearts of students. Untitled. Visual Teaching Strategies. Gordon Parks. Horace Poolaw. Photographs. Lacy McMullen Jr sur Twitter : "Imagine trying to sleep with a near hallowed bloody back. Imagine the smell, the infections you may be subjected to. Imagine screaming for help as your slave master hacked at your back, your cries falling on deaf ears. And.
These Photos of a Segregated U.S. Navy Unit Were Lost for Decades. They Still Have a Story to Tell. There are many ways to photograph a black person, and it’s easy for things to go horribly wrong.
America’s long history of racist imagery makes that quite clear. Wayne Miller, a white man, was notable for doing it right. Photographing the White South in the Turbulence of the 1960s. Doy Gorton grew up deep in “the most Southern place on earth”: the Mississippi Delta. He was a child of privilege, attending segregated schools and escorting debutantes to the Old South ball wearing a Confederate uniform and sporting a sword. At the University of Mississippi in 1961, he pledged the fraternity founded by Robert E. In Photos, Eudora Welty Captured Life in 1930s Mississippi. Bursting from the fertile ground of Crystal Springs, Miss., an absurdly odd harvest blots out the horizon: a cottage-size tomato, drooping decorative leaf and all, perched atop a wooden shanty.
Lured by the irresistible gravitational pull of this shrine to “The Tomatropolis,” a smiling woman poses for a photographer and offers scale, her fingers pointing childlike at the kitsch behind her. Sure, the folks back home had to see this surreal homage to the city’s economic foundation.
Five fallacies of racism. “They tried to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds.” — mural at the Eastern Market in Detroit. The 6888th. "Do White Singers Imitate Negroes?" Thread by @cgdhopkins: In honor of the #1620project and other 19th-century fables, allow me to tell you about the legend of Mother Goose and how it is actually abo… Ethiopia history: Oromo slaves for Arabia taken to South Africa — Quartz Africa. In September 1888, the HMS Osprey serving in the Royal Navy’s anti-slave trade mission in the Red Sea, based in Aden, intercepted three dhows embarked from Rahayta and Tadjoura on the Ethiopia coast.
Aboard were 204 boys and girls bound for resale in Arabian markets. Other dhows with young human cargo were also apprehended. The children came from the highland area of Oromia Region of Ethiopia, and spoke the Oromo language. They had been trekked as many as several hundred kilometres to the coast.
Henrietta Lacks. Beyond the Slave Trade, the Cadaver Trade. Whiteness in History Textbooks (example) Black Minnesota. African Music. 50 Historic Black Women Guitarists and Bassists You Need To Know. If you’re reading this and are someone who consumes or performs music, then every day you should be celebrating the innovation, resilience, and talent of black music communities.
Last February, we published a guitarist a day in the genre of rock ‘n’ roll to emphasize the history and impact black women have had as pioneers in the United States. Today, on the last day of Black History Month, we take a deeper dive into the influences that Black, Indigenous, and Afro identifying women musicians have had on music history.
For this particular list, we choose to focus on black women guitarists and bassists from prior to 1999. We did this specifically to showcase the legends—many of whom unfortunately have been overlooked, dismissed, or forgotten—that should be recognized as pillars of music history. This list is not to be brushed off as just another list.
Armory Show. Rosa Parks. Inspiring Black Women. Muslim Refugees. Muslim Women Who Inspire. Protest for Civil Rights. Mary Schmich: What the ‘radical’ Sears catalogue says about our racial past. At lunchtime Monday, shortly after he heard that the once-mighty Sears company was filing for bankruptcy, Louis Hyman thought, “Huh, I should write some stuff down.” Hyman, a historian of capitalism who teaches at Cornell University, spent 10 minutes or so typing out a Twitter thread that began: “In my history of consumption class, I teach about #Sears, but what most people don’t know is just how radical the catalogue was in the era of #Jim Crow.”
He added a few more thoughts, about how the old general stores in the rural South, run by white people who often treated black customers poorly, reinforced the white supremacist hierarchy. “Every time a black southerner went to the local store they were confronted with forced deference to white customers who would be served first,” he wrote.
Creative Arts. These 1970s pageants celebrated black women's beauty. Ballet & Dance. Quiltmaking. Cartoonists and Illustrators. Why we need art historians: Fountain, the urinal artwork, is now argued to have been made not my Marcel Duchamp, but by Baroness Elsa von Freitag-Loringhoven. Georgia - Slavery Impact Inquiry. The FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores. In the spring of 1968, FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover announced to his agents that COINTELPRO, the counter-intelligence program established in 1956 to combat communists, should focus on preventing the rise of a “Black ‘messiah’” who sought to “unify and electrify the militant black nationalist movement.” The program, Hoover insisted, should target figures as ideologically diverse as the Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture), Martin Luther King Jr., and Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad.
Just a few months later, in October 1968, Hoover penned another memo warning of the urgent menace of a growing Black Power movement, but this time the director focused on the unlikeliest of public enemies: black independent booksellers. In Chicago, schools with no librarians are located in or near predominantly black neighborhoods, particularly on the South Side. #SLJStateoftheUnion.
World War I and the Struggle for Black Manhood. The most important black woman sculptor of the 20th century deserves more recognition.
How Black Activists Shaped the Labor Movement. #JamesBaldwin's response to a Yale professor asking “So why must we always concentrate on color?” is still the most fire answer in answer history. Happy Birthday!… Techno-Vernacular Creativity in a New Africa: The Turntable as a Cultural Device. #TIL that there were black women pro baseball players in the Negro League era! I didn’t know! [picture in the mirror is also Toni Stone]… These Women Were Told Not to Play Soccer. Instead They Formed a Team. Black Art and Social Justice: An Interview with Elizabeth Burden. Black Swimmers and Diasporic Understandings of Water – AAIHS.
Black Firefighters of NYFD. Myth - Black People Don't Knit. "In our world a man is confident but a woman is arrogant, a man is assertive but a woman is aggressive - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie addresses #CHLondon 2018. Full-length video now available on Youtube htt. Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement. Tulsa's Massacre of 1921 and the Quest for Black Freedom in America. May 31, 1921 was the first day of the Tulsa Race Riot, an event which nearly crushed the African American community in Tulsa, Oklahoma and has long held a position of lore in African American history.
It remains an event that, like so many other horrific events in American history, should be better known by the average citizen. The last survivor of the “Race riot,” Olivia Hooker, has recently spoken about her memories of that tragic day. I wish to think about the events in Tulsa as part of a larger narrative, however, about how we should think about the ways in which black economic self-empowerment in all its forms has been an important part of African American intellectual history. The Forgotten Girls Who Led the School-Desegregation Movement. The Secret Network of Black Teachers Behind the Fight for Desegregation. [Black girls fueled the crusade to desegregate schools] Anderson: Black citizens who challenged Jim Crow segregation by rejecting racial subordination faced violence, intimidation, and economic ruin. Talk about the personal and emotional costs borne by black educators who were fighting for black children during the civil-rights era.
A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Resistance Stories.
"I knew San Quentin had cool programs (& a podcast s/o @earhustlesq!), but I didn't know it had a legit coding startup staffed by prisoner developers making apps & web stuff for companies like @Airbnb. I talked to @MarkFiore about. Black Rebellion and the Political Imaginations of African American Teachers. Nat Turner became an impromptu topic of discussion in my third grade classroom.
Ms. Todman had a way of getting her point across that seared it into your mind. Gloria. THE RED PENCIL by Andrea Davis Pinkney , Shane W. Evans.
Wishtree by Katherine Applegate. "Every public school teacher in America who wants to teach the most pressing issues of our time and raise a new generation of critical thinkers NEEDS this book. #RethinkingSchools #education #curriculum #teaching. CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE. Brazil: Editora Rocco Bulgaria: Egmont Bulgaria Publishing House Canada: ADA Czech Republic: Host (Czech Republic)
Ann Braden Books — The Benefits of Being an Octopus. “This is a compassionate look at poverty, hard choices, and defending one’s right to be treated humanely.
A very fine first novel, written with a deft hand.”– Newbery Medal Winner Karen Hesse You can now pre-order it! * Not the Girls You're Looking For. The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo. Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about.
With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. 28 MORE Black Picture Books That Aren’t About Boycotts, Buses or Basketball (2018) – Scott Woods Makes Lists. When I made the first of these lists back in 2016 I had no idea the places it would go: Libraries, schools and families all over the world continue to share it even now, and I am humbled by its reception. I’ve long threatened to do a sequel to that list, so here it is. Same old librarian, all new tricks. These New and Upcoming Books by Black Authors Will Give You Life in These Perilous Times.