REPARATIONS: The Complicated Debate Context, News, and History No Pensions for Ex-Slaves: How Federal Agencies Suppressed Movement To Aid Freedpeople The District of Columbia Emancipation Act The Truth Behind ’40 Acres and a Mule’ by Henry Louis Gates Britain's...
Dr. Bell discusses his article “The Unintended Consequences of Promising Black Americans Reparations” in which we talk about Black American enslavers, the difficulty of assigning reparation responsibility, and just how to frame the questions surrounding potential slavery reparations.
In this interview we discuss Prof. Conklin’s paper An Uphill Battle for Reparationists: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effectiveness of Slavery Reparations Rhetoric.
The 1619 Project is a long-form journalism project developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, from The New York Times, which "aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of the United...
David Waldstreicher teaches history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is the author of Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification and Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery and the American Revolution. Most recently he has edited the Diaries of John Quincy Adams for the Library of America, and is finishing a new biography, The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley.
Books The unapologetic guide to Black mental health : navigate an unequal system, learn tools for emotional wellness, and get the help you deserve, by Rheeda Walker Out in the rural : a Mississippi health center and its war on poverty, by Thomas J. Ward, Jr. The black...
Rana Hogarth is associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She holds a Ph.D. in History, with a concentration in History of Science/History of Medicine from Yale University; an M.H.S. in Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research highlights how the professionalization of medicine and the production of scientific knowledge in the Americas was bound up with the making of race.
Local History Librarian Jessica Robinson has hosted two incredible programs in the last several months dealing with Cleveland Heights-University Heights' history of integration and desegregation. The first, "Through the Ivory Curtain: The History of African Americans...
Sherri Burr is the Dickason Chair and Regents Professor Emerita at the University of New Mexico. She joined the UNM law faculty in 1988, after having received her A.B. (Politics) from Mount Holyoke College, her M.P.A (International Relations) from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and her J.D. from Yale Law School.
This Black History Month why not take a moment to celebrate Black Firsts and Black Achievement? Here is a list of books currently available at Heights Libraries. Just click a link to place a hold. Timelines of African-American History: 500 Years of Black achievement...