50 Black Writers Whose Impact Went Beyond the Page
By Rachel Cavanaugh, Stacker News
On 2/23/21 at 8:00 PM EST
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African American authors have created a rich body of literature: fiction and nonfiction, essays, poetry, scholarly articles and more. The narratives they ve added to American storytelling have shifted perspectives and prompted fresh conversations; their writing has shaped how the Black experience is viewed and understood in America by readers of all races and backgrounds.
In the 19th century, African American literature was driven by narratives of slavery, many told from the perspective of escaped slaves such as Harriet Jacobs or Frederick Douglass. In the 1920s, as Black artists and intellectuals emerged following the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance produced a generation of authors who addressed issues of racism and segregation. By the middle of the century, Black authors played an important role in laying the foundatio
Upstate’s forgotten abolitionists: Theodore Weld was the ‘most mobbed man in America’
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
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Upstate New York was a hotbed in the 19th century for the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. Names like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Gerrit Smith are familiar. But there were also valiant figures from the region, white and Black, who fought for the end of slavery whose names have faded into history.
During this Black History Month, after searching through old newspapers and websites, we take a look back at some of Upstate New York’s forgotten abolitionists.
When he died on Feb. 3, 1895 at Hyde Park, Massachusetts, the life of abolitionist Theodore Weld was remembered beautifully by the “Brooklyn Sun.”
Take A Walking Tour Of Boston s Historic Black Churches
Located just steps away from the Massachusetts State House in what was the heart of Bostonâs African American neighborhood throughout the 1800s, the African Meeting House was built in 1806 and is now the oldest Black church edifice still standing in the United States.
Meredith Nierman
By Rev. Emmett G. Price III, Rev. Irene Monroe, and Ellen London
This month, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes viewers on a journey through the rich and complex evolution of The Black Church
to reveal how it has influenced nearly every chapter of the African American story and continues to animate Black identity today. We spoke with Reverend Irene Monroe and Reverend Emmett G. Price III, hosts of theAll Revâd Up
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With the lethal and corrosive effects of racial injustice on full display, the time is right to finally commence the long-delayed racial reckoning that white Americans can and should no longer avoid.