Posts by dr_fran
Join Us on February 25, 2017 for ABHM’s Founder’s Day Gathering!
A description of the full program of ABHM’s Founder’s Day Gathering 2017, including presenters’ bios and headshots, organizational co-sponsors, and links for more information on the subject of How Communities Repair and Remember Racial Trauma.
Read MoreSponsorship Opportunities and Benefits – Founder’s Day 2017
Organizations are invited to sponsor ABHM’s Founder’s Day Gathering. This exhibit gives a brief overview of the event and outlines in detail the 2017 Sponsorship levels and their various benefits.
Read MoreStunning Film Adaptation of ‘Fences’ Opens on Christmas Day
The trailer and a review of the film version of August Wilson’s play, Fences, directed by Denzel Washington who also plays the lead.
Read MoreInside a Report on Slavery and Its Legacy
A New York Times reporter investigates how, in the 1840s, New York Life, the nation’s third-largest life insurance company, sold 508 policies on enslaved men and women — and discovers who the beneficiaries were and locates some of the descendants of those insured slaves.
Read More3 Adults and Baby Died In A Jail Run By Potential Homeland Security Head
Four people, including a newborn baby, have died at the Milwaukee County Jail since April. One died of “profound dehydration.” The string of deaths is concerning. The jail’s operation is the main responsibility of Sheriff David Clarke, a leading contender for the Trump’s head of Homeland Security.
Read MorePeering Through White-Rimmed Glasses: A Letter to My Fellow White Americans
A long-time white anti-bias educator and activist finds that her fellow white Americans are increasingly eager to understand America’s racial hierarchy and their part in it. A discussion of the roots and impacts of the White Racial Frame and what white people can do about it.
Read MoreBlack Holocaust Museum, apartments approved
A proposal to create apartments and a new home for America’s Black Holocaust Museum on Milwaukee’s north side provides an opportunity for people to better understand this country’s racial divisions.
Read MoreWhitelash and Blacklash
By Sharon Leslie Morgan and Thomas Norman DeWolf, Beacon Broadside [Editor’s note: Normally we excerpt articles, posting only a portion and including a link back to the original article. This time, however, because many visitors to ABHM are struggling to make sense of the election and what to do now, we have decided to post…
Read MoreMarshall Clark
The KKK Is Working To Get Out The Vote — For Donald Trump, Of Course
Within a week of the election, the KKK steps up its efforts to elect Trump president by leafleting neighborhoods in Alabama, Georgia, Kansas and Louisiana and advertising their endorsements through David Duke’s Senate campaign and their own newspapers.
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