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A radical archive arrives at Harvard
Harvard University acquired and is currently in the process of archiving educator and activist Angela Davis’ work. The archivists estimate the collection will be available in 2019.
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 MoreWhose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy
This extensive report, including an executive summary, data, maps, and findings, describes the history and locations of monuments to the Confederacy around the country. It details the current controversy surrounding their removal.
Read MoreOscar-winning Screenwriter from Milwaukee to Direct “The American Way”
John Ridley, who won an Academy Award for writing “12 Years a Slave,” is adapting his “The American Way: Those Above And Those Below” comic series exploring racial issues through the superhero genre.
Read MoreHelp Bring ABHM Home! Museum’s New Space Rises in Bronzeville
ABHM announces its restoration as a physical museum. A $7 million capital (building fund) campaign will enable the museum to be housed on its former site but on the ground floor of a brand new apartment building in Milwaukee’s historic Bronzeville neighborhood.
Read MoreABHM: A Key to Revitalization of MKE’s Historic Bronzeville
Restoring ABHM to the new Griot Building is a key element in the planned redevelopment of a block of abandoned buildings. The $17.4 million project led by Wisconsin’s only female and minority-owned development business, will transform the site into a vibrant mixed-use campus as a catalyst for the reestablishment of the historically black Bronzeville neighborhood’s culture and entertainment district.
Read MoreTech’s Whiteness Is the Problem. Are We the Solution?
By Amy L. Alexander, The Root Last week, Twitter said it was “pausing” to reconsider the process by which it bestows the blue checkmark denoting accounts that had been “verified,” and on Wednesday the company announced it was yanking the designation from some users who occupy the neo-Nazi or nationalist bucket of grassroots white activism.…
Read MoreWhy Music Education is Essential for Underserved Schools
Music education often suffers when budgets shrink, but some argue that it’s critical to build young minds and encourage creativity.
Read MoreRacism is behind outlandish theories about Africa’s ancient architecture
Seemingly, African intelligence and innovative inventions such as the pyramids of Giza, still haunt the psyche and mindset of the narcissistic beliefs that guide white supremacy and world domination. Especially and more so does this hatred and racist behaviors delve into and at, abuse for the bodies of the African; mind, spirit, body, intuition prowess and soul, if allowed to continue its evil reign worldover over. Therories allowed to float throughout the worlds rhetoric unchecked and never validated is sad for those that perpetrate such nonsense and imposed disbelief in the strength and superiority of another culture other than white, definitely perceived as a threat unstoppable.
Read MoreA Tale of 2 Mich. Water Crises
By K. Araújo, The Root On Oct. 23, 12 Oakland County, Mich., communities spent roughly nine days without water after a major water main break. Almost 305,000 people were affected by the break. Oakland County and the Great Lakes Water Authority worked nearly around the clock to ensure that the residents in those communities had safe,…
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