Detailed, simulated description of The Tulsa Race Riot and the fall of Black Wall Street in Tulsa Oklahoma.
Racial Wealth Gap: Myths Addressed
“In this report, we address ten commonly held myths about the racial wealth gap in the United States. We contend that a number of ideas frequently touted as “solutions” will not make headway in reducing black-white wealth disparities. These conventional ideas include greater educational attainment, harder work, better financial decisions, and other changes in habits and practices on the part of blacks. While these steps are not
necessarily undesirable, they are wholly inadequate to bridge the racial chasm in wealth.”
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, Open Yale Courses
Free course exploring the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War, from the 1840s to 1877. The primary goal of the course is to understand the multiple meanings of a transforming event in American history. Those meanings may be defined in many ways: national, sectional, racial, constitutional, individual, social, intellectual, or moral.
https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-119
Boost and Blocks Timeline
It helps to examine history when trying to figure out why things are the way they are today. History makes it clear that the way things are today is not “natural,” the way they have to be, or pre-ordained. By examining our history, we learn that economic, political, and cultural forces have shaped the very rules of the world today. Continue reading “Boost and Blocks Timeline”
ADOS 101
Premiere website for the growing ADOS movement
ADOS—which stands for American Descendants of Slavery—seeks to reclaim/restore the critical national character of the African American identity and experience, one grounded in our group’s unique lineage, and which is central to our continuing struggle for social and economic justice in the United States.
Redlining – Adam Ruins Everything
The Case for Reparations – Coates
“Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.” (link)
N’COBRA
NATIONAL COALITION OF BLACKS FOR REPARATIONS IN AMERICA (N’COBRA)
The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) is the premiere mass-based coalition of organizations and individuals organized for the sole purpose of obtaining reparations for African descendants in the United States.