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Portraits of James Scurlock remain scattered across Omaha a year after his fatal shooting.
The plywood displaying his likeness that had covered the windows of a downtown coffee shop last summer now are held in the Durham Museum basement archives.Â
A billboard that demanded Justice for James, which was briefly posted at 72nd and Dodge streets, now is tucked away at the Great Plains Black History Museum.
And in the neighborhood where Scurlock grew up, a massive mural honoring JuJu World has weathered months of storms outside the Easy Drive Package convenience store.
Those permanent relics ensure that a piece of the story of what happened to the 22-year-old will endure â both to remind those who observed last summerâs cascading events and to teach future generations.
February 25, 2021 at 8:00 am by Sean Crommelin
Over the past two decades, American universities have become more racially diverse. From 1996 to 2016, the percentage of undergraduate students of color in the United States increased from 29.6% to 45.2%, according to a report by the American Council on Education.
Currently, Tettegah and her collaborators have been gathering data from students as part of a broader self-assessment of UCSBâs current climate and practices.Â
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Despite these gains, however, S.T.E.M. fields remain skewed, with Black and Hispanic students significantly underrepresented. Zooming in on the demographics of faculty, staff and administrators in these fields, the majority of positions are filled by white people.
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Rioters on the south side of the Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha, NE on Sept 28, 1919. History Nebraska
On September 27, 1919, a mob of at least 10,000 white people stormed the courthouse in Omaha, Nebraska, demanding the sheriff turn over Will Brown, a 40-year-old Black man. They raided the building, scaled walls and smashed windows. When the mob’s initial demands were refused, they set fire to the courthouse, turning it into a seething furnace. Omaha Mayor Ed Smith tried to intervene, but the mob tried to lynch him. Smith escaped badly injured.
Will Brown. Public domain
From inside the courthouse, terrified white inmates threw down a note surrendering to the mob: “THE JUDGE SAYS HE WILL GIVE UP NEGRO. BROWN. HE IS IN THE DUNGEON. THERE ARE TEN WHITE PRISONERS ON THE ROOF. SAVE THEM.”
Madison in the Sixties – the first week of February 1969 – the Black Revolution symposium.
From February 3-8, twenty-one nationally renowned guests – including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Andrew Young – and forty-three faculty, staff, and students, lead a conference at the University of Wisconsin entitled “The Black Revolution: To What Ends?” Produced by Union Forum Committee co-chairs Margery Tabankin and Neil Weisfeld for $8,861, the six-day symposium attracts 16,500 attendees and crystallizes the incipient Black power movement on campus. Chancellor Edwin Young unwittingly helps underwrite the conference, through a $2,500 contribution his office had made to the Afro-American Race Relations Center, which turned it over to the conference.[i]