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Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching propelled the civil rights movement, but telling his story underscores a reluctance for some in Mississippi “to come to grips with its history of racial brutality.”
— Read on www.npr.org/2019/08/28/755024458/why-don-t-y-all-let-that-die-telling-the-emmett-till-story-in-mississippi

Ian Frazier on why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.
— Read on www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/26/when-w-e-b-du-bois-made-a-laughingstock-of-a-white-supremacist

How can we use placemaking as a strategy to promote peacemaking in cities facing instability, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa region?
— Read on www.pps.org/article/placemaking-for-peacemaking

Black farmers were sold ‘fake’ seeds, lawsuit claims
— Read on amp.usatoday.com/amp/795147002

Ignoring racism in America allows racist ideas to flourish. Here’s how to be antiracist.
— Read on www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1044141

The landing of the first Africans in English North America in 1619 was a turning point, but slavery was already part of U.S. history by then
— Read on time.com/5653369/august-1619-jamestown-history/

It wasn’t just slavery but segregation, redlining, evictions, exclusion — and outright theft.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/racial-wealth-gap.html

Critical, open and informed debate, in the spirit of The New School for Social Research
— Read on www.publicseminar.org/2014/04/slavery-the-capital-that-made-capitalism/

A child’s shackles, a West African legacy, a black sergeant in the Union Army — these are stories you need to hear.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/19/magazine/history-slavery-smithsonian.html

Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/historical-significance-1619/596365/