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Rosewood Massacre at 100: Black Florida History and White Terror

Dan Royles African American Intellectual History Society
Thinking about the role that historical testimony played in getting some measure of justice for the Rosewood survivors, it’s hard not to also think about the way that lawmakers in Florida are trying to skew the teaching of history.

Friday Nite Videos | February 24, 2023

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Psychedelic Assisted Therapy | John Oliver. What Ever Happened to Hazel Scott? Gloves Off: Buttigieg Calls Out Trump Record of Deregulation. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Documentary. The Completely Predictable Resurrection of John Hagee.

Tidbits – Feb. 23, 2023 – Reader Comments: Derailment = Nationalization; Florida Bans Black History; Earthquake Hits Syria Too; FBI Still Uses Informants; Amazon Labor Union; Charlene Mitchell; Communists in Closets; Building Resilient Organizations

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Reader Comments: Derailment = Nationalization; Florida Bans Black History; Syria Hit by Earthquake, too; FBI Still Uses Informants; Amazon Labor Union; Charlene Mitchell; Communists in Closets; Building Resilient Organizations; Cartoons; more...

Who’s Afraid of Black History?

Henry Louis Gates Jr. New York Times
As the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. so aptly put it, “No society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present.”

You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught

Stephen Rohde Truthdig
How U.S. history textbooks and prominent American universities justified slavery, perpetuated racial stereotypes and promoted white supremacy.
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