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TIPHC Newsletter, July 5-11, 2020

Why Thomas Jefferson's Anti-Slavery Passage Was Removed from the Declaration of Independence The Founding Fathers were fighting for freedom—just not for everyone. (History.com) With its soaring rhetoric about all men being “created equal,” the Declaration of Independence gave powerful voice to the values behind the American Revolution. Critics, however, saw a glaring contradiction: Many [...]

2022-04-20T13:34:49-05:00July 8, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, June 28-July 4, 2020

Was Beethoven Black? Probably Not, but These Unsung Composers Were A music scholar examines the history of the decades-old theory, and what its permanence tells us about who is considered ‘canon’ in classical music Image: Debate over Beethoven's race sparked once again on Twitter last week. He is depicted here in a portrait by [...]

2023-03-15T12:35:32-05:00July 1, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, June 21-27, 2020

Racial violence and a pandemic: How the Red Summer of 1919 relates to 2020 The wave of violence a century ago against Black Americans echoes how today, "people feel they have little to lose, and so much at stake," one historian said. Photo: Crowd of men and armed National Guard in front of the [...]

2023-04-26T13:53:47-05:00June 24, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

More Uncomfortable Truths

In February 2020, I was asked to contribute an opinion piece for the PVAMU website. I submitted an essay describing what I called an Uncomfortable Truth of Black History Month. That “truth” focused on the black community’s continual efforts to prove it is worthy of recognition as contributors to American society. Even more so, [...]

2020-06-24T13:50:16-05:00June 24, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Goodwin|

TIPHC Newsletter, June 14-20, 2020

The Damning History Behind UT’s ‘The Eyes of Texas’ Song Student athletes wrote a letter urging officials to change the tune, which has racist origins. (Texas Monthly) On June 4, after one of their first in-person practices since the coronavirus outbreak, the Texas Longhorns football team lined up outside Darrell K Royal—Texas Memorial Stadium [...]

2023-04-26T12:13:32-05:00June 17, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, June 7-13, 2020

The 1968 Kerner Commission Got It Right, But Nobody Listened Released 50 years ago, the infamous report found that poverty and institutional racism were driving inner-city violence (Smithsonianmag.com) Pent-up frustrations boiled over in many poor African-American neighborhoods during the mid- to late-1960s, setting off riots that rampaged out of control from block to block. [...]

2022-02-22T15:46:45-06:00June 10, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, May 31-June 6, 2020

Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Struggle’ Series Prepares to Be Seen by a New Generation For the first time in decades, view a major reimagining of the battles that made the nation (Image: Victory and Defeat, Panel 13 from "Struggle: From the History of the American People," 1954-56, by Jacob Lawrence. (Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross. [...]

2023-04-27T10:45:03-05:00June 3, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, May 24-30, 2020

One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed Slaves At the close of the Civil War, freed slaves in Charleston honored fallen Union soldiers. (History.com) Memorial Day was born out of necessity. After the American Civil War, a battered United States was faced with the task of burying and honoring the [...]

2023-04-27T10:47:59-05:00May 27, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, May 17-23, 2020

How the U.S. Navy’s First Black Officers Helped Reshape the American Military Image: U.S. Navy bombers in flight over their carrier, circa 1944, the year the first African-American sailors were selected for the Navy's Officer Candidate School. (Getty Images) (Time.com) This year marks the 75th anniversary of the United States victory over Germany and [...]

2023-04-26T14:40:50-05:00May 20, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

TIPHC Newsletter, May 10-16, 2020

3 Africans in Mexico City Grave Tell Stories of Slavery’s Toll The men might have been among the earliest to be stolen from their homeland and brought to the Americas. Image: The skulls and modified teeth of three people taken from Africa and buried hundreds of years ago in a mass grave in Mexico [...]

2023-03-15T12:29:44-05:00May 13, 2020|2020 Spring, African American Texas History, Featured|

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