Abstract
The inimitable Cornel West preaches radical piety, and fortitude that may bend but not break, to the “warriors” fighting an oppressive Trump agenda. collapse
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Author, journalist Ijeoma Oluo to give annual MLK Lecture
Seattle-based writer Ijeoma Oluo will give the 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture at Cornell, in a virtual forum on March 1 at 7 p.m.
Instead of a lecture, this year’s event will be a conversation between Oluo and Edward Baptist, professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences and author of “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” (2014). A Q&A will follow.
Ijeoma Oluo
The conversation will be livestreamed and is free, open to the public and accessible; register here.
The history of Black people in the United States is a journey filled with perseverance, reflection and overcoming.
Today’s African American population is still tethered to the beginnings their predecessors endured. That connection to the past simultaneously serves as a catalyst in their pursuit of social justice, and a point of reference to measure growth.
Reporters across Pennsylvania spoke with Black educators, diversity advocates and other leaders to hear about their favorite books with facets of Black history, including less familiar texts that have inspired them and shaped their perspectives.
Reflecting on writings from Frederick Douglass to Isabel Wilkerson, these avid readers celebrate the power of words and elevate the lessons engraved in Black history.
My beloved brethren: The Indians of North and South America the Greeks the Irish, subjected under the king of Great Britain the Jews, that ancient people of the Lord the inhabitants of the islands of the sea in fine, all the inhabitants of the earth, (except however, the sons of Africa) are called men, and of course are brutes!! And of course are, and out to be slaves SLAVES TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE and their children forever!! To dig their mines and work their farms; and thus go on enriching them, from one generation to another with our blood and our tears!!!!
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Introduction
In 1913, historian Charles Beard published a book that argued that the drafting and ratification of the U.S. Constitution was more driven by the desire of those involved to protect their economic interests than by any strong commitment to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.REF Beard maintained that the Constitution was shaped primarily by “the moneyed interest” to control and ultimately crush the democratic aspirations of some plantation owners and more humble folk such as farmers and those heavily in debt. This argument formed part of a wider theory, advanced by the Progressive movement, that interpreted the American Revolution as consisting of two phases: a rebellion against Britain (1776) and a fight over who would rule the new republic (1788).