Block Museum exhibit rounds up more than a century of art showing and condemning racial violence
‘A Site of Struggle’ at NU’s Block Museum includes warnings that some of the more graphic pieces may cause discomfort.
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‘A Site of Struggle’ at NU’s Block Museum includes warnings that some of the more graphic pieces may cause discomfort.
From Ida B. Wells to James Baldwin to Ta-Nehisi Coates, these free works by Black authors give important context for what's going on in the US now.
The new exhibition will explore the various ways American artists have grappled with anti-Black violence spanning a 100+ year period from the anti-lynching campaigns of the 1890s to the founding of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013.
LibriVox Menu Listen/Download (help?) The purpose of the pages which follow shall be to give the record which has been made, not by colored men, but that which is the result of compilations made by white men, of reports sent over the civilized world by white men in the South. Out of their own mouths shall the murderers be condemned. For a number of years the Chicago Tribune, admittedly one of the leading journals of America, has made a specialty of the compilation of statistics touching upon lynching. The data compiled by that journal and published to the world January 1, 1894, up to the pres...
Freedom of the press is a quintessential part of our democracy. In 1892, journalist and civil rights leader Ida B. Wells investigated and reported on lynchings in the South, making data on racial discrimination and lynching accessible to the public for the first time in the U.S., which led to the publishing of her 1895...