Available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Next on American History tvs american artifacts, we visit the Canon House Office building to see artifacts that tell the story of africanamericans in congress in the 20th century. Im sarah elliott, the curator at the house of representatives. And im matt rauz nwasniewsk. We want to talk about africanamerican representation in the 20th century, and we have a lot of artifacts from the house collection that have to do with that and a lot of history to cover. And the last africanamerican sort of to be elected in the 19th century leaves in 1901, george white of north carolina, and then its a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house. Thats is Oscar Depriest from illinois. We have a couple really rare artifacts from Oscar Depriest from the 1920s and 30s, but before i launch into them because i love them so much, matt, tell us a little bit about oscar and how he got into congress. So theres a long period, almost
Tvs american artifacts we visit the Cannon House Office building to see artifacts that tell the story of africanamericans in congress in the 20th century. Im farar elliott. And im matt waz knsniewski. We wanted to talk about africanamerican representation in the 20th century. We have a lot of artifacts from the house collection that have to do with that and a lot of history to cover. And the last africanamerican to be elected in the 19th century leaves in 1901, george white of north carolina. And then its a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house. And that is Oscar Depriest from illinois. And we have a couple of really rare artifacts from Oscar Depriest from the 1920s and 30s. But before i launch into them, because i love them so much, matt, tell us a little bit about Oscar Depriest and how he got into congress. So, theres a long period, almost three decades, after George Henry White leaves congress where theres no africanamericans who serve in either the house or
Mcdonnell, she argues that identity politics is challenging diverse thinking at the collegiate level, this is from 2018. This is a different experience ive been speaking on colleges campuses recently. , you know what that means, i received a walk out the storm this age strategy in southern california, the blockade that prevented anyone from actually attending my talk, socalled students of color, nearby at Pomona College announced that i was a quote fascist white supremacist trans lobe, queer folk classes and ignorant of interlocking systems of domination that produced the lethal condition of which oppressed people are forced to live. So to actually have an audience, is an unusual experience that may take me a while to get accustomed to. Now we have been hearing a lot about the crisis of free speech on College Campuses, but not much about the root cause. The narcissistic victim ologies that is rapidly spreading from academia to the rest of culture, in a word the American University is i
20th century. We have a lot of artifacts from the house collection and have to do with that. And a lot of history to cover. And, the last africanamerican to be elected to the 19th century was 1901, george white of north carolina, and that was a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house. And we have a couple of where artifacts from the 19 twenties and thirties. But before i launch into that, because i love them so much. Tell us a little bit about oscar priest and how he got into congress. Theres a long period, almost three decades after George Henry White where there is no African Americans who served in the house or senate. That has everything to do with the gym crow laws that them go on the books in the south. The way that that changes over time during those decades, there is a critical thing going on in the south where African Americans begin to leave the cell and move northward as part of a multi decade movement that would later be called the great migration. Tha
About. Dr. Blackstock i formed the organization in response to Racial Health inequities that i have seen practicing over 10 years in the Emergency Department. We have some very concerning statistics. Life men have the shortest expectancy, black women have the highest Maternal Mortality rate, and i wanted to work with health and related organizations around these Racial Health inequities. Host how do you propose to go about doing that . What is your organization doing . Dr. Blackstock i partner with these organizations and i do talk, training, consulting. The training is about racism in health care, unconscious bias in health care, to make clinicians and organizations more aware of how we are trying to be wonderful physicians and clinicians to people and sometimes our biases influence the way we care for people and we have data that shows that. Working with organizations to ensure they are meeting their Health Equity goals, ensuring that all patients have the Optimal Health outcomes as