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 Black History is Every Month: Central Park Displaced African-American Settlement; Strange Fruit: Nine Unsung Heroes of Black History, in a Graphic Novel; Rosa Parks Wasn’t Meek, Passive, or Naive; What Julian Bond Taught Me; Misremembering King Rewrites the Press’s Own Role in History’; Field Notes on Beginning;

Strange Fruit: Nine Unsung Heroes of Black History, in a Graphic Novel

Equality on two wheels, and other tales from the everyday pioneers of civil rights.

 http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/06/06/strange-fruit-joel-christian-gill/

Rosa Parks Wasn’t Meek, Passive, or Naive—and 7 Other Things You Probably Didn’t Learn in School

Rosa Parks Wasn’t Meek, Passive, or Naive—and 7 Other Things You Probably Didn’t Learn in School

Rosa Parks Wasn’t Meek, Passive, or Naive—and 7 Other Things You Probabl... Much of what students are taught, and much of what most Americans think they know, about Parks’s activism is wrong.

What Julian Bond Taught Me

What Julian Bond Taught Me

What Julian Bond Taught Me Freedom movements don’t just happen, they are made—and not by charismatic leaders, but by everyday people posses...

Field Notes on Beginning

Field Notes on Beginning

Field Notes on Beginning I wear my grandmother’s bones like a housedress through the city.

Misremembering King Rewrites the Press’s Own Role in History’

"Still, when Donald Trump greeted the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, if you will, with a swipe at Lewis, many in corporate media expressed ready disapproval for what Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson called Trump’s disregard for the American narrative, in which Lewis is an undeniable hero. (For Gerson, Lewis’s challenge to the 2000 election is merely a sign of his “disturbing habit of hyperbole.”)

But the relative ease with which elite media defended John Lewis belies a more complex relationship between the press corps and the civil rights movement, which the King holiday always serves to highlight.

Media’s traditional misremembering of King distorts his ideas and priorities, and rewrites the press’s own role in history; it also projects a distorted vision of what protest means, and how social change happens—a clear view of which is much in demand right now."

‘Misremembering King Rewrites the Press’s Own Role in History’

‘Misremembering King Rewrites the Press’s Own Role in History’ National news media have never really come to terms with what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for during his final ...

Central Park Displaced African-American Settlement

Black History Month: Central Park Displaced African-American Settlement

				Black History Month: Central Park Displaced Af... One large settlement was the African-American community of Seneca Village, which fronted on the present Central Park West, roughly from...
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