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Monday marks the start of Black History Month, a time to reflect on the contributions African Americans have made to the U.S. while recognizing that the fight for racial justice continues.
The theme of Black History Month this year is The Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity.
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) chose the theme, as it does every year: Past themes include Black Migrations, Black Women in American Culture and History and The Niagara Movement, among others.
Torah teaches Black lives matter. Torah teaches all lives matter. This truth has resonated around the world with non-Jews and Jews who are Black, indigenous and people of color and Jews who aren’t. Movements and political positions come and go, but the truth of Torah is eternal.
While the truth of Torah is beyond time and space, we are called to live out our faith in a particular, often messy context, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, the civil rights movement of our day. Future generations will look at how we met this challenge, to be true witnesses of a holy God. Our positive witness will be seen and replicated across the globe. Fortunately, the American Black Jewish partnership provides an example of doing this. The civil rights movement consisted of a diverse coalition of participants communists, Black nationalists, Black power advocates, revolutionaries and Christians, among many others.
WBFO s Thomas O Neil-White reports.
Leading the tour was Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Chairwoman Lillie Wiley-Upshaw, who said this showcase is not only part of Buffalo’s history, but a part of American History, too.
“It’s just incredible that we have these structures so we can continue to tell these stories,” she said “And yes, it’s important because these folks had an impact, not only on things locally, but nationally. We know that Mary Talbert hosted the first meeting of the Niagara Movement, which was a precursor to the NAACP. And she, herself, was a member of the church.”
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A man wearing a kippah holds a sign reading Jews for Black Lives at the weekly Black Lives Matter Jackie Lacey Must Go! protest in front of the Hall of Justice in Los Angeles, California, September 9, 2020 (VALERIE MACON / AFP)
Torah teaches that Black lives matter. Torah Teaches that all lives matter. This truth has resonated around the world with non-Jews and Jews who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color and Jews who aren’t. Movements and political positions come and go, but the truth of Torah is eternal. While the truth of Torah is beyond time and space, we are called to live out our faith in a particular, often messy context, such as the Black Lives Matter movement,
The Daily Heller: Documenting the Black Image in Post–Civil War America
The scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents an exceptional four-hour documentary series, which first aired on PBS in 2019, titled
One gift of being shuttered in during the pandemic is catching up on all that needs to be caught up with. This PBS series, which somehow caught me be surprise, explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change. The 12 years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865–1877), an historical wellspring that was never taught in my elementary school when we spent our one week in social studies on the Civil War, witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning and makeup of our democracy, with millions of former slaves and free Black men, women and children seeking for their rightful place as equal citizens under the Constitution and Bill of Ri