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Reading the Civil Disobedience article made me think about how normalized white southern violence was during these times. It seemed like basically the author was saying if the black community acted out in civil […]

While reading “Brown as a Cold War Case”, I noticed that the value of context in relation to historical events is great. In high school when I learned about the Brown Case nothing beyond what it was and what it […]

Implicit bias is the idea that people create certain judgements on a person’s character based off of their race, gender or physical appearance. It has been generally accepted that all people have implicit bias, […]

When reading “The Negro Artist and The Racial Mountain” I began to think about my high school experience. Some of the  Black students would say that another Black student is “talking white” or “sounds white”, […]

In 1915,  Dubois asks an important question pertaining to race and class conflict. He wonders why lower; working class Whites are not helping the exploited Asians, and Blacks. Since, all of them are in the […]

Lynching’s Near Home and Connections to Wells   

Peyton O’Laughlin  

In February, while on social media, I came across a post about a young black man from the late 1800’s. The man was accused of raping […]

Colorism, according to Oxford Dictionaries, is prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group. Colorism has influenced what we as a […]

Despite their distinguished wartime record, the Tuskegee Airmen returned to an America unwilling to recognize their contributions. Racism and segregation continued to have a stranglehold on the country. Instead of […]

Something that I’ve always struggled with has been the idea of knowing that people in other countries and places suffer far greater hardships than we (modern day Americans) currently do, but also not letting that […]

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., I thought it would be interesting to do some research about how many individuals reacted to his work. For instance, he is one of […]

I have a confession. I haven’t done my laundry in two weeks. I’m also tired and ready to not be a college senior anymore. Due to life, I had to look presentable IN JEANS meaning I had pull myself together…out […]

Many of us know about Jim Crow laws and how they were the way that white people in the south could best oppress the people of color in the south after the Civil War. The Jim Crow laws that hindered the 15th […]

February 7, 1942, was a day that changed America. Segregation and discrimination had reached a point that was no longer tolerable, and according to the Pittsburgh Courier, it was time for a campaign. The “ […]

One of the best novels I have ever read is a memoir by Melba Pattillo Beals called Warriors Don’t Cry. The book focuses mainly on her time as a member of the Little Rock Nine and trying to integrate Central High S […]

During the time Kathleen Cleaver came to talk to us about the Black Panther movement, she mentioned a lot of different people who had a great impact at the time of the movement. She talked about Aldridge Cleaver, […]

Students, please consider supporting this important effort to help clean water projects in Central America by attending Soup & Bread next Wednesday, April 11 from 5-7pm in Kittredge.   I share Nate Addington’s m […]

I went to the documentary screening of Little White Lie. This documentary is about a girl that grew up within a household believing she was a Jewish White girl living in a White community of Woodstock, New York, […]

I found Du Bois’s article “African Roots of War” to be very interesting because it makes you think about the domino effect that sometimes occurs in history that gets skimmed over easily. The idea that the scram […]

Currently I am in two history classes (three if you count art history), and one of them is about world history in the year 1900. One of my favorite books we’ve read was King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Ter […]