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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Signs â1836 Projectâ Bill Promoting Texas History. Critics Fear it Will Whitewash Slavery…Because Duh
Advocates say the ‘1836 Project’ promotes Texas history, but some believe it’s just more historical whitewashing by anti-Critical Race Theory conservatives.
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On the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dr. Tiffany Crutcher Reflects on the City's Journey to Justice
On September 16, 2016, Dr. Tiffany Crutcher suffered an unspeakable loss that would forever change not only the course of her life but that of an entire city. While on her way to respond to a domestic dispute, Tulsa, Okla., police officer Betty Shelby spotted an abandoned vehicle in the middle of the road. It…
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The Stories We've Told: A Look at the Tulsa Race Massacre From The Root Archives
The first time most (white) Americans likely heard about the Tulsa Race Massacre was when HBOâs Watchmen opened its first episodeâaired on October 20, 2019âwith the devastating reenactment of the death and destruction that took place on May 31-June 1 in Greenwood, the Black neighborhood known as âBlack Wall Street.â Or if they missed that,…
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What We Lost In the Fire: Black Wall Street Before the Tulsa Race Massacre
By any measure, John W. Rogers is a success story. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago and started trading stocks when he was 12. He attended Princeton and played on an Ivy League champion basketball team while studying economics. In 1983, he raised $10,000 from friends and family and started Ariel Capital…
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We Found the Textbooks of Senators Who Oppose The 1619 Project and Suddenly Everything Makes Sense
White people love critical race theories. While they generally oppose Critical Race Theory, the academic movement started by Black scholars, they have historically embraced the uncapitalized version of race theory. However, because so many see whiteness as a default, they donât understand that their entire education has already been racialized. The fact that most people…
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Highlighting the Contributions of an 'Unknown Unknown' This Womenâs History Month
The great journalist and civil rights activist, Ida B. Wells once said, âThe way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.â This Womenâs History Month, I want to turn the light of truth on three women whose lives intersected to right the wrong of segregated public transportation. These women deserve…
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Apparently, Violent Extremism Doesn't Exist
A new study on the Jan. 6 insurrection, rally and jumping-in ceremony at the U.S. Capitol Building determined that most of the participants in the Mutiny on the Ballot were regular schmegular white people just like me and you. The investigation, conducted by the George Washington University Program on Extremism, analyzed arrest information, court documents…
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#WhiteHistoryMonth337: The Top 10 Whitest Laws of All Time
After a grueling 28 days of watching corporations, institutions and random white people pretend to care about the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman and that other Black guy with the big part in his afro (I think itâs Booker T. Douglass), we now return to our regularly scheduled program. Today marks the…
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'By Means Fair or Foul': America's Conspiracy to Assassinate Black Power
There is no such thing as âwhite people.â While the concept of race has always been an unscientific axiom, whiteness is the most mutable of the social constructs we call ârace.â Whiteness is a fence with portable borders, defined more aptly by who is not inside. The Irish werenât considered white. Neither were the Italians.…
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A History of Black Excellence: The Black Women Who Won Reparations
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on House Resolution 40. The legislative proposal establishes the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans, which examines âslavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies.â While reparations recently…