“Wednesday 16 June 1976 was a day that would change South Africa , when some 10,000 black children and teenagers took to the streets of Soweto to protest against being forced to study in Afrikaans, the language of their white oppressors. As apartheid police responded to the march with force, the protest turned violent. By the end of the day, around 176 young people had been killed and thousands more injured when police fired live ammunition into the crowd. Thirteen-year-old Hector Pieterson was one of the first to d...”

“At a Chicago hotel this past Sunday the final round in the 13th Annual KCF All-Girls National Championships concluded. Cincing a suprising win 13-year-old Jada Hamilton sealed the win for her team and sealed tournament victory for the Detroit under 14s. "I was pretty amazed," she said, still awe-struck. "It's hard to describe how I felt that day because I was really happy." The University Prep Science & Math team earned first place in the Under 14 category at the championship. All the girls came from the Detroit C...”

“In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected; in particular, the encroachments of power that take place through notions of humanity, enjoyment, protection, rights, and consent. By looking at slave narratives, plantation diaries, popular theater, slave performance, freedmen's primers, and lega...”

“Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the Blue and Gold Professor of Black Studies and History at the University of Delaware, and she directs the program in African American history at the Library Company of Philadelphia. She is also an OAH Distinguished Lecturer .  Her forthcoming book, Never Caught: Ona Judge, the Washingtons' Runaway Slave, will be published early next year. Hollywood is onto something. Historians, including myself, don't usually make this kind of comment. Typically we tear Hollywood apart, calling out the...”

“Your new post is loading... Your new post is loading... Rescooped by Valsadie from Libraries News and Social Media Articles Scooped by Valsadie Scoop.it! Columbia University History Professor Eric Foner Photo: Daniela Zalcman Eric Foner—Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, author of Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (W. W. Norton, 2015), Columbia University profe...”

“Malachi Kirby says it was literally a spiritual journey to take on the iconic role of Gambian warrior Kunta Kinte in the History Channel's daring remake of the 1977 mini-series, Roots . "On the set, I got down on my knees, prayed, and asked God to help me to tell the truth," Kirby admits. Nevermind the pressure of taking on the role made famous by LeVar Burton in the original. (Burton is a co-executive producer on the History remake.) NBCBLK Contributor Sabrina Campbell caught up with the actor to talk...”

“You could be forgiven for thinking that the UK has largely solved the problem of getting ethnic minority students into university. "All ethnic minority groups in England are now, on average, more likely to go to university than their white British peers," reported a study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies at the end of last year. But such reports neglect the largest ethnic minority in Europe : the Roma, of whom there are 10 to 12 million across the continent. The higher education participation rate for Roma in...”

“The following is a guest post from Lindsey E. Jones, a Ph.D. Candidate in History of Education at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and a 2016-2018 Pre-doctoral Fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Lindsey earned a bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 2011 and an M.Ed from the University of Virginia in 2013. Her dissertation project, entitled "‘Not a Place of Punishment': The Virginia Industrial...”

“Harvey Sanford was fascinated with aviation since his South End boyhood in the 1930s, when his father would take him to watch planes take off and land at what they then called the East Boston airport. "My grandmother said he would put two Popsicle sticks together and make an airplane when he was a little guy," said his daughter, Judith Sanford-Harris of Milton. Advertisement Mr. Sanford, who was 89 when he died in his sleep Tuesday in a Dorchester nursing home, began working as a mechanic at what is now Logan...”

“The Harlem Hellfighters: Fighting Racism In The Trenches Of WWI Panels From 'The Harlem Hellfighters' Max Brooks tells the story of the first African-American infantry unit to fight in World War I through a new graphic novel illustrated by Caanan White. Hide caption In 1917, the Harlem Hellfighters were first sent to train at Camp Whitman near Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Caanan White/Courtesy of Broadway Books Hide caption Prevented from serving alongside white U.S. soldiers, t...”