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  • Katherine Johnson: National Visionary

    Katherine Johnson: National Visionary National Visionary Leadership Project 2005 Image of Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1971. NASA mathematician and physicist whose work successfully guided astronauts throughout the historic early era of manned space flight including the first mission to the moon BIOGRAPHY Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is a pioneer of the…

  • Mary Seacole – International Woman

    Mary Seacole – International Woman The Huffington Post, United Kingdom 2015-03-04 Elizabeth Anionwu, Emeritus Professor of Nursing University of West London Later this year a memorial statue to Mary Seacole will be unveiled in the gardens of St Thomas’ hospital, overlooking the River Thames and the Houses of Parliament. Sir Hugh Taylor, Chairman of Guys…

  • Obama, at Selma Memorial, Says, ‘We Know the March Is Not Over Yet’

    Obama, at Selma Memorial, Says, ‘We Know the March Is Not Over Yet’ The New York Times 2015-03-07 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent Richard Fausset Doug Mills/The New York Times SELMA, Ala. — As a new generation struggles over race and power in America, President Obama and a host of political figures from both…

  • Interracial Intimacies: An Examination of Powerful Men and Their Relationships across the Color Line

    Unique among books on interracial relationships, this book examines the lives of high profile men who have produced public discourses on race and interracial relationships and who themselves, often contradictory to their rhetoric, were or continue to be involved in love relationships across the color line.

  • The Men Who Left Were White

    The Men Who Left Were White Gawker 2014-04-12 Josie Duffy There are three things you should know. First: I’m not biracial. “What are you?” people ask, and they expect me to say something thrilling and tribal. I answer, but still they press. “Where are your ancestors from?” people ask, and they want answers that aren’t…

  • Occupation Babies: Mixed-Race Japanese Children

    Occupation Babies: Mixed-Race Japanese Children Wonders & Marvels: A Community for Curious MInds who love History, its Odd Stories, and Good Reads 2015-02-28 James McGrath Morris, Guest Contributor One of the pleasures of researching a book is coming across something you don’t anticipate, something surprising that is fascinating to both the reader and the writer.…

  • A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life [Live event at the National Archives Museum]

    A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life [Live event at the National Archives Museum] The National Archives Museum William G. McGowan Theater Corner of Constitution Avenue and 7th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 2015-02-27, 12:00 EST (Local Time) Airs on C-SPAN 2, Sunday, 2015-03-08, 19:00 EDT. For more information, click here. Between…

  • One Drop of Love at Iowa State University

    One Drop of Love at Iowa State University Great Hall, Memorial Union Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2015-03-01, 19:00 CST (Local Time), Doors open at 18:30 One Drop of Love produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, performed by Fanshen Cox Digiovanni is a multimedia solo show that tells the story of how the notion…

  • Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South

    Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South University of North Carolina Press February 2015 232 pages 6.125 x 9.25 11 halftones, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2187-6 Barbara Krauthamer, Associate Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Amherst From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War,…

  • The white man who pretended to be black

    The white man who pretended to be black The Telegraph 2015-02-05 Tim Stanley With the release of the movie Selma, a lot of Americans are asking how far race relations have really come in the United States. On the one hand, the movie depicts the success of the Sixties civil rights crusade – its victory…