February 2, 2021
In his new book, Ibram X. Kendi, the bestselling author of “How to Be an Antiracist” and “Stamped from the Beginning,” uses the voices of scores of writers to tell the history of the journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present.
The acclaimed historian and leading scholar on racism co-edited the highly-anticipated new work of nonfiction, “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019,” with Keisha N. Blain, historian and author of “Set the World on Fire.”
Released on Tuesday, it is the first single-volume history of African Americans penned by a “community” of Black writers and poets. With 90 contributors, each writer examined and wrote largely in 2019 about a five-year span of the 400-year history, employing a variety of genres ranging from historical essays to short stories to personal vignettes. The conclusion of each 40-year span ends with a poet capturing the period in verse.
Activists chart course for Black America s progress after a year of turmoil
Most activists say leaders need to prove they are accountable and usher in change that benefits the communities that supported them.
Donna M. Owens, Special to USA TODAY
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3:23 pm UTC Feb. 18, 2021
Most activists say leaders need to prove they are accountable and usher in change that benefits the communities that supported them.
Donna M. Owens, Special to USA TODAY
Published
3:23 pm UTC Feb. 18, 2021
The arc of Timuel Black Jr.’s life is long, covering most of the 20th century and all we ve seen of the 21st. Along the way, the 102-year-old labor organizer, educator, author and freedom fighter has witnessed pivotal events in American and African American history.
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The arc of Timuel Black Jr.’s life is long, covering most of the 20th century and all we ve seen of the 21st. Along the way, the 102-year-old labor organizer, educator, author and freedom fighter has witnessed pivotal events in American and African American history.
As an infant, he survived the influenza pandemic of 1918. He was part of the Great Migration, which brought his family north from Alabama to Chicago. As an Army soldier in World War II, he battled Hitler abroad and segregation at home. During the civil rights movement, he led a contingent to the March on Washington in 1963.
The Justice Department is Prosecuting an American for Election Interference in 2016
A screenshot of the @Ricky Vaughn99 account from summer 2016, captured on the Wayback Machine.
“Ricky Vaughn” was among the most prolific far-right Twitter users working to spread disinformation during the 2016 election cycle. He posted racist and anti-Semitic photos and memes and routinely retweeted the @TEN GOP account, which purported to belong to the Tennessee Republican party but, Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed two years later, was actually run from St. Petersburg by the Internet Research Agency troll farm. In the MIT Media Lab’s ranking of top political influencers in 2016, Vaughn came in at #107 above NBC and CBS.