Why Is Juneteenth Such An Important Holiday?
Have you heard of Juneteenth? It’s a holiday you might not know about but, in light of recent events in Charleston, the history is more relevant than
Have you heard of Juneteenth? It’s a holiday you might not know about but, in light of recent events in Charleston, the history is more relevant than
The Advancement Project fights against racial inequity with innovative strategies and works toward a caring, inclusive, and just democracy in the United
A conversation with Emmanuel Acho about race that many white people have never been able to
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast | update description text Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast features movement voices, stories, and strategies for racial justice. Co-hosts Chevon and Hiba give their unique takes on race and pop culture, and uplift narratives of hope, struggle, and joy, as we continue to build the momentum needed to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture. Build on your racial justice lens and get inspired to drive action by learning from organizational leaders and community
Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement is an original documentary film that chronicles the evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement through the first person accounts of local activists, protesters, scholars, journalists and
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy. Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding