Month: February 2017

  • A Family That Pushed Racial Boundaries Through Generations The New York Times 2017-01-27 Caitlin Dickerson, National Reporter From left: Blake, Jared, Bryan and Deborah Treadwell, photographed in Eastham, Mass. Credit Erik Jacobs for The New York Times When Lizzie Connor kissed her husband goodbye and hopped on a train at Grand Central Depot, The New…

  • MARRIED TO A NEGRO. The New York Times Thursday, 1885-05-14 Page 8, column 5 A few days ago passengers waiting in the New-Haven Railroad rooms at the Grand Central Station were surprised at the attention paid a young white woman by a colored man, who was dressed in the height of fashion. They were more…

  • ‘Hidden’ no more: Katherine Johnson, a black NASA pioneer, finds acclaim at 98 The Washington Post 2017-01-27 Victoria St. Martin Fame has finally found Katherine Johnson — and it only took a half-century, six manned moon landings, a best-selling book and an Oscar-nominated movie. For more than 30 years, Johnson worked as a NASA mathematician…

  • The future is mixed-race Aeon 2017-02-02 Scott Solomon, Professor in the Practice Department of BioSciences Rice University, Houston, Texas Edited by Sam Dresser A grandmother and granddaughter from Cape Verde. Photo by O. Louis Mazzatenta/National Geographic And so is the past. Migration and mingling are essential to human success in the past, the present and…

  • Iconic Fine Arts Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Honored In Google Doodle The Huffington Post 2017-02-01 Zahara Hill, Black Voices Editorial Fellow Sophie Diao The artist’s dedication to portraying her African-American and Native-American ancestry separated her from other sculptors.  Black History Month began with the art of this lesser-known black icon. In honor of the start of…

  • Auschwitz to Rwanda: The link between science, colonialism and genocide Mail & Guardian Africa Johannesburg, South Africa 2017-02-01 Heike Becker Sixty years later, the recurrent connections of science and genocide still demonstrate the dark underbelly of Western modernity in Africa, Europe, and the world. (Reuters/Finbarr O’Reilly) Significant links connect racial science in colonial southern Africa…

  • On the Precipice of a “Majority-Minority” America: Perceived Status Threat From the Racial Demographic Shift Affects White Americans’ Political Ideology Psychological Science Volume 25, Issue 6 (2014-06-01) pages 1189-1197 DOI: 10.1177/0956797614527113 Maureen A. Craig, Assistant Professor of Psychology New York University Jennifer A. Richeson, Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology Yale University The U.S. Census…