Forgotten racial justice struggle at Linden-McKinley High School topic of new documentary
The film "Shutdown" premieres Saturday afternoon at the Columbus Metropolitan Main Library.
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Columbus ranks near bottom in percentage of home ownership for black families
Nationally, the black home ownership rate remains stubbornly low.
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Film Explores Forgotten Racial Justice Fight at a Columbus High School
“Shutdown” tells the story of the political unrest that rocked the Columbus school in 1971 and continues to resonate today.
Source: columbusmonthly.com
'We were kind of a novelty': Reflections on desegregating Ohio schools
Lloyd Smith, 66, was among the first group of Black children to be bused to the all-white Westwood Elementary School in Lima, Ohio in the early 1960s.
Source: wosu.org
Black History Month Virtual Events Planned at UW | News
February 1, 2021 Several virtual events are planned this month as part of the University of Wyoming’s Black History Month celebration. “The Death of Black Wall Street and the Myth of the American Dream” is the theme of Black History Month, sponsored by UW’s African American and Diaspora Studies (AADS) and the Black Studies Center. Events are free and open to the public. “This year’s theme reckons with the 100th anniversary of one of America’s most catastrophic events,” says Fredrick Douglass Dixon, the Black Studies Center’s director and an assistant professor in the UW Scho...
Source: uwyo.edu