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Even as New York’s museums deliver a season of exhibitions in which the Black figure is emphatically, profoundly present, these institutions are reckoning with legacies of absence, invisibility and anonymity. Along with the bold, triumphant portraiture of Henry Taylor at the Whitney and Barkley L. Hendricks . . .
TALLAHASSEE – Linking Jacksonville to Tallahassee in a congressional district has been the only way for almost a decade that Black voters there could be assured of electing a candidate of their choice, attorneys for . . .
Here are the 17 words from Florida’s new social studies guidelines that lit a fire under much of America, on every side of the debate: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” In typical fashion, many on the conservative side initially lauded this news, although […]
An estimated 12.38 million Black and Latino people are missing or listed with incorrect information in the voter databases sold by vendors, making them unreachable. While 40 percent of Black and Latino people are essentially invisible, only 18 percent of white people are missing or mislisted, according to a Stanford study. Finding these millions of missing Black […]
Photo byClay BanksonUnsplash RICHMOND, VA. – Republican-led states in the US have been accused of attempting to erase or downplay the history of African Americans, including the horrors of slavery. This has sometimes led to efforts to suppress or ignore Black history altogether. One recent example of this . . .
At the conclusion of the United States Civil War in 1865, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman signed an order dividing confiscated Confederate land – which itself had been confiscated from its Indigenous inhabitants – into plots intended for formerly enslaved people. This agreement became known by the famous phrase, “40 acres and a mule.” After […]
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