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âSoul of a Nationâ: Reimagining Americaâs monuments
As monuments honoring the Confederacy were toppled, artists such as Hank Willis Thomas are erecting ones that honor diverse historical figures.Matt Rourke/AP, FILE
A lot has changed in the year since George Floyd s death at the hands of police sparked a nationwide reckoning.
Amid the outcry, Confederate monuments were removed and hauled away. Racially insensitive scenes from popular TV shows, like Golden Girls and The Office, were pulled by streaming services. And, along with all the new racial equity initiatives announced by corporations, some also changed the names of their brands Aunt Jemima, for example, is now the Pearl Milling Company.
These iconic civil rights leaders have lost most of their friends. But their hope endures
We lost civil rights icons. They lost friends.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Xernona Clayton and Andrew Young are some of the last remaining members of a generation of civil rights activists who reshaped the US and challenged their country to become a genuine multiracial democracy.
But they are also survivors who have witnessed some of their closest friends in the movement die during a sobering stretch over the past year.
“They’re still a few of us around, but not really many,” says Young, who was one of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s most trusted advisers. “When a few of us get together we always start with the song, ‘By and by, when the morning comes. All of the saints of God will gather home. We’ll tell the story of how we’ve overcome, and we’ll understand it better by and by. ”
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How Three Powerful Black Mothers Helped Shape US History Emily Wilson
The opening story in
The Autobiography of Malcolm Xtells of Malcolm’s mother, Louise Little, facing down Ku Klux Klansmen who rode up to her house in Omaha, Nebraska, shouting for her husband to come out. Little, who was pregnant with Malcolm at the time, opened the door and told them her husband was away and she was alone with her three small children.
Anna Mailaika Tubbs also recounts this story in her book
A follower of Marcus Garvey, Little influenced who her son became, teaching him and his siblings about current affairs and “Garveyite principles of self-determination, self-reliance, discipline, and organization,” Tubbs writes in the book.