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A New Hope

Forgive me for borrowing the title of one of the most profitable films in history, “Star Wars: A New Hope.” I’ve always been enamored by space. I’m a child of the 1960s and I remember playing with my Major Matt Mason action figure (not a doll!) as my family and I watched Neil Armstrong [...]

2020-10-28T15:33:34-05:00October 28, 2020|Goodwin|

Tell me the truth

Democracy – a) government by the people, b) a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them, directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections. Merriam-Webster Dictionary There were many things I learned from my father. He taught me how to [...]

2020-09-30T11:17:02-05:00September 30, 2020|Goodwin|

Monday Morning Quarterback

Leadership – the action of leading a group of people or an organization. Oxford Languages Let’s face it. It’s not easy being a “leader.” It requires a certain fearlessness to not be afraid of making difficult decisions and charisma to get others to support those decisions. Not everyone has the fearlessness and charisma to [...]

2020-09-09T18:17:42-05:00September 9, 2020|Goodwin|

TIPHC Newsletter, Aug. 9-15, 2020

The TIPHC Newsletter is a weekly compendium of African American history topics relative to Texas, specifically, but nationally as well for Black history enthusiasts. However, if you're teaching or studying black history, the newsletter is also a useful tool for research, classroom discussions and assignments, and references. We welcome your feedback and submissions for [...]

2023-06-06T14:46:00-05:00August 13, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History|

TIPHC Newsletter, Aug. 2-8, 2020

How Black Suffragists Fought for the Right to Vote and a Modicum of Respect Hallie Quinn Brown and Other "Homespun Heroines" (neh.gov) Hallie Quinn Brown knew the power of black women and urged anyone who heard her to let it flourish. Read her remarks from 1889 and you might believe she saw the future [...]

2023-04-26T14:47:21-05:00August 5, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, July 26-Aug. 1, 2020

How Alvin Ailey’s ‘Revelations’ Has Helped Me Find My Way Back to Texas While quarantined and away from home, I keep coming back to the late Texan choreographer’s works—which are newly available to watch online. Photo: Alvin Ailey dancers perform in the "Move, Members, Move" section of Revelations, in 2011. (Earl Gibson/AP) (Texas Monthly) [...]

2023-04-27T10:44:05-05:00July 29, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, July 19-25, 2020

A History of the Newly Resurgent 'Black National Anthem' Photo: Jon Batiste leads a protest March in Manhattan in June 2020, where he and his band performed "Lift Every Voice and Sing." (Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images) (Time Magazine) When the National Football League kicks off its season on Sept. 10, it will [...]

2023-04-26T12:47:20-05:00July 22, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, July 12-18, 2020

How a century-old recording revealed the lost world of African-American cantors (Henry Sapoznik) The first few decades of the 20th century saw the rise of African-American synagogues simultaneously drawing inspiration from Jewish tradition and a Black worldview. What accounts for this rise is manyfold: Jim Crow laws which supplanted Reconstruction in the south drove [...]

2023-03-15T12:45:13-05:00July 15, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

Protect and Serve (Control)

The black community’s relationship with law and order has been tenuous, at best, for generations. Sadly, I believe our society has lost sight of the original purpose of law enforcement and how that purpose has been altered in our current societal and global environments. What’s even worse, if that’s possible, is that some groups [...]

2020-07-15T12:37:58-05:00July 15, 2020|African American Texas History, Goodwin|

Contents

-- The Troubling History of Big Tobacco’s Cozy Ties With Black Leaders

-- African-American books of Interest, 2015-2016

-- Black Artists and the March Into the Museum

-- As it nears its 50th year, Kwanzaa strives for relevance

-- TBHPP Bookshelf: "No Color Is My Kind, The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston"

-- This Week In Texas Black History, Dec. 20-26

-- Ron Goodwin Blog

-- Submissions wanted

Contents

-- A brief history of Islam in America

-- New book chronicles African-American characters in "The Little Rascals"

-- Study: Black athletes and “The height of hypocrisy in higher education”

-- TBHPP Bookshelf: "Disney's Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South"

-- This Week In Texas Black History, Dec. 27-Jan. 2

-- Ron Goodwin Blog

-- Submissions wanted