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Chart of Black Population by state in 1860.

Black Population by State, 1790–2019

A Flourish data visualisation by Bill Black.

by Bill Black via Flourish on July 29, 2021

Janet Robinson and Yolanda Grayson King inside Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church

In Virginia, a Historic Black Neighborhood Grapples With Whether to Grow

Some in The Settlement, founded by formerly enslaved people, say development should be allowed to create generational Black wealth while others disagree.

by Antonio Olivo via Washington Post on July 18, 2021

Conservatives Are Once Again Trying to Erase Black History

The battles over Critical Race Theory and Southern heritage are really about a narrow, exclusionary reading of our past.

by Tyler D. Parry via Made By History on July 14, 2021

Still from upcoming short film “Write No History” by Black Quantum Futurism, 2021.

Project: Time Capsule

Time capsules unearthed at affordable housing sites offer alternative, lost, and otherwise obscured histories.

by Camae Ayewa, Rasheedah Phillips via E-Flux on June 14, 2021

Doing Black History

Exploring the ways that African American history has been learned and taught in schools, museums, and popular culture.

A second grade teacher and her students pledge allegiance to the flag circa 1970.

Is There an Uncontroversial Way to Teach America’s Racist History?

A historian on the unavoidable discomfort around anti-racist education.

by Jarvis R. Givens, Sean Illing via Vox on June 11, 2021

Destruction from the Tulsa Race Massacre, 1921.

Reflections on the Artifacts Left Behind From the Tulsa Race Massacre

Objects and documents, says the Smithsonian historian Paul Gardullo, offer a profound opportunity for reckoning with a past that still lingers.

by Paul Gardullo via Smithsonian on May 24, 2021

Black children learning in a classroom

What’s Missing From the Discourse About Anti-Racist Teaching

Black educators have always known that their students are living in an anti-Black world and that their teaching must be set against the order of that world.

by Jarvis R. Givens via The Atlantic on May 21, 2021

The word slavery in a dictionary crossed out

We Found the Textbooks of Senators Who Oppose The 1619 Project and Suddenly Everything Makes Sense

To our surprise, most received a well-rounded education on the history of Black people in America. Just kidding.

by Michael Harriot via The Root on May 6, 2021

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Black America’s Neglected Origin Stories

The history of Blackness on this continent is longer and more varied than the version I was taught in school.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via The Atlantic on May 4, 2021

Daryl Michael Scott.

"Bad History and Worse Social Science Have Replaced Truth"

Daryl Michael Scott on propaganda and myth from ‘The 1619 Project’ to Trumpism.

by Daryl Michael Scott, Len Gutkin via The Chronicle of Higher Education on March 10, 2021

Performers in "Black America" posing in their costumes

Black America, 1895

The bizarre and complex history of Black America, a theatrical production which revealed the conflicting possibilities of self-expression in a racist society.

by Dorothy Berry via The Public Domain Review on February 24, 2021

black and white photos of children

The Magazine That Helped 1920s Kids Navigate Racism

Mainstream culture denied Black children their humanity—so W. E. B. Du Bois created The Brownies’ Book to assert it.

by Anna E. Holmes via The Atlantic on February 12, 2021

Prince Hall portrait

A Forgotten Black Founding Father

Why I’ve made it my mission to teach others about Prince Hall.

by Danielle Allen via The Atlantic on February 10, 2021

Photograph of a former slave interviewed by the Federal Writers' Projects

Stories of Slavery, From Those Who Survived It

The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.

by Clint Smith via The Atlantic on February 9, 2021

Chart of race-based castes.

The Limits of Caste

By neglecting the history of the Black diaspora, Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" fails to reckon with systems of racial capitalism.

by Hazel V. Carby via London Review of Books on January 21, 2021

An illustration of people digging in an archaeological site in the shape of a cross.

Unearthing the Faithful Foundations of a Historic Black Church

In Colonial Williamsburg, a neglected Christian past is being restored.

by Daniel Silliman via Christianity Today on December 21, 2020

Massacre in Boston

Knives Out

‘Struggle: From the History of the American People’ charts the strife of early US history in a fierce Cubist/Expressionist style.

by Sanford Schwartz via New York Review of Books on November 5, 2020

A man protesting for Mexican-American representation in history education.

Ethnic Studies Can’t Make Up for Whitewashed History in Classrooms

More diverse regular history classes are the key to a historically literate population.

by Jonathan Zimmerman via Made By History on October 11, 2020

Black women, oil painting

Rebellious History

Saidiya Hartman’s "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments" is a strike against the archives’ silence regarding the lives of Black women in the shadow of slavery.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on October 1, 2020

A Military 1st: A Supercarrier is Named After an African-American Sailor

USS Doris Miller will honor a Black Pearl Harbor hero and key figure in the rise of the Civil Rights Movement.

by Jay Price via NPR on September 29, 2020

Watching “Watchmen” as a Descendant of the Tulsa Race Massacre

Who should be allowed to profit from depictions of traumatic events in Black history?

by Victor Luckerson via The New Yorker on September 20, 2020

Diorama of Benjamin Banneker surveying the area around the White House

Art of History: Preserving African American Dioramas

Conservators are restoring a series of dioramas created for the 1940 American Negro Exposition, bringing their magical artistry, and stories, back to life.

by Robbyn McFadden via CBS News on August 30, 2020

This One Letter in a Textbook Could Change How Millions of Kids Learn About Race

What the capitalization of "Black" will mean for students and their teachers.

by Fernando Alfonso III via CNN on July 23, 2020

Lithograph of a Black man appealing to liberty and justice.

Dreams of a Revolution Deferred

How African-Americans in Early America celebrated the Declaration of Independence's ideals, even as basic freedoms were denied to them.

by Derrick R. Spires via Uncommon Sense on June 30, 2020

The Ancestry Project

Sometimes I learned more Black history in a week at home than I did in a lifetime of Februarys at school.

by Mariah Stovall via The Paris Review on June 29, 2020

6 Myths About the History of Black People in America

Six historians weigh in on the biggest misconceptions about black history, including the Tuskegee experiment and enslaved people’s finances.

by Jessica Machado, Karen Turner via Vox on February 18, 2020

The Great Debate: Martin Luther King, Jr. vs Robert F. Williams

In 1959 there was a public debate on violence vs nonviolence in the pages of The Liberator magazine between Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Williams.

by Ben Passmore via The Nib on February 10, 2020

1619 and All That

The Editor of the American Historical Review weighs in on recent historiographical debates around the New York Times' 1619 Project.

by Alex Lichtenstein via American Historical Review on February 3, 2020

The Fight to Preserve African-American History

Activists and preservationists are changing the kinds of places that are protected—and what it means to preserve them.

by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on January 27, 2020

A black father watching his child play with blocks, both of them smiling.

A Brief History of Black Names, from Perlie to Latasha

A scholar disproves the long-held assumption that black names are a recent phenomenon.

by Trevon Logan via The Conversation on January 23, 2020

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