George Floyd, Black Lives Matter and the impact on HE
On 25 September 2020, with little more than a month to go in the United States presidential election, and, no doubt, blind to the irony that he was speaking not far from the national historic landmark that had been the home of the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King in Atlanta, Georgia, President Donald Trump delivered a blistering attack on America’s most visible and important civil rights organisation.
The president recycled many of the tropes from more than half a century ago used by racist politicians, such as George Wallace, who, upon becoming governor of Alabama in 1963, famously declared “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”, and J Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Author Annette Gordon-Reed to receive Empire State Archives History Award | The Daily Gazette
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Annette Gordon-Reed’s 2008 book “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family” earned her the Pulitzer Prize for History.
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For history junkies who enjoy watching that kind of programming on C-SPAN3, Annette Gordon-Reed is a rock star.
She’s been on that network more than three dozen times since 1997 talking about Thomas Jefferson, slavery and other race-related issues. Her first book, “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy,” pointed the finger at Jefferson and the intimate relationship he had with one of his slaves, and a decade later Gordon-Reed’s 2008 book, “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” earned her the Pulitzer Prize for History.
This article was published online on May 4, 2021.
When I was growing up in Conroe, Texas, about 40 miles north of Houston, my classmates and I took Texas history twice, in the fourth and seventh grades. We learned about Texas’s history in the United States, its previous existence as a republic, and its time as a province of Mexico. Among other things, we were exhorted to “remember the Alamo” and “remember Goliad,” famous events in Texas’s fight for independence from Mexico. Some other aspects of the state’s history were less covered. I didn’t need school lessons to tell me that Black people had been enslaved in Texas, but in the early days of my education, the subject was not often mentioned.
2020 in Plymouth, from the pad of Emily Clark
Thanks to Pinehills housing trust
PLYMOUTH – In January, Zoning Board of Appeals member Michael “Buster” Main and his wife, former Conservation Commission Chairman Gerry Hooker, known affectionately as Sweetpea, recounted how Pinehills Managing Partner Tony Green took the high road and responded to criticism of a lack of affordable housing with a wonderful offer. Ten years ago, they said Green and Pinehills President John Judge asked if Main would get involved in The Pinehills LLC trust dedicated to providing funding for affordable housing. The Pinehills Affordable Housing Charitable Trust was born and Main served on its board of directors. Green and Judge, as well as developer Tom Wallace, put their heads together to dedicate funds and raise money for 19 affordable homes for the homeless, veterans and those who simply couldn’t afford a home otherwise. As Main retired from his post with the trust, he publicly acknowledged the m