Tag: Black history
Back in the 1960s, the push for parental rights over school...
Jerald Podair, Lawrence University
A key issue underlying the 2023 Virginia election first drew statewide – and national –...
Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson made a suggestion during the 1963 March...
Bev-Freda Jackson, American University School of Public Affairs
Every now and then, a voice can matter. Mahalia Jackson had...
DeSantis’ ‘war on woke’ looks a lot like attempts by other...
Rochelle Anne Davis, Georgetown University and Eileen Kane, Connecticut College
A Florida law that took effect on July 1,...
6 books that explain the history and meaning of Juneteenth
Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest University
After decades of being celebrated at mostly the local level, Juneteenth –...
Florida Gov. DeSantis leads the GOP’s national charge against public education...
Jonathan Feingold, Boston University
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ disdain for “woke ideology” is on full display.
Student ‘slave auctions’ illustrate the existence of a hidden culture of...
Barbara Harris Combs, Kennesaw State University
In an otherwise normal football season, two California high schools abruptly canceled the...
How a poet and professor promotes racial understanding with lessons from...
Quraysh Ali Lansana, Oklahoma State University
Quraysh Ali Lansana is the director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing...
Plantations could be used to teach about US slavery if stories...
Amy Potter, Georgia Southern University and Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee
State legislatures across the United States are...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
