Few books capture the dynamism and energy of what is now called the long civil rights movement better than Lindsey R. Swindall’s The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955.
Columbus Datebook for March
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Editor’s note: The print version of our March issue included a virtual lecture by former Ohio Department of Health director Amy Acton, sponsored by the Bexley Area Chamber of Commerce. That event has been postponed; check the website for updates.
“Machines and Macaws”
Online, March 16
The Johnstone Fund for New Music continues its mission of bringing exciting new works to Columbus audiences with a livestreamed concert from genre-defying chamber ensemble Warp Trio. The New York City-based group of musicians will bring together classical, rock and jazz in a program that explores the natural world juxtaposed with modernity.
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This 2018 BLM rally calls back to the long history of the Black Power Movement in DC Image by Lorie Shaull licensed under Creative Commons.
“Washington represents the clearest contradictions of black and white in America,” Stokely Carmichael said in 1968. That quote is displayed front and center on historian George Derek Musgrove’s sweeping interactive web page, which details the history of the Black Power movement in DC.
Musgrove, a co-author of
, and a history professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, argues that the Black Power movement wasn’t just a force in DC politics. It was
the force for four decades. From the Civil Rights movement to DC’s first years of Home Rule to the resurgence of activism in the 1980s and 1990s, these activists were instrumental in shaping the District as we know it today.
Our national conversation about anti-Black racism made 2020 a pivotal year painful for many, cathartic for others, memorable to all. Now a new year brings new opportunities to listen to Black voices and stories. Pick up one of these titles to deepen your knowledge of our country’s past, and join the chorus of voices advocating for a better future.
Ida B. the Queen
Ida B. Wells gets the royal treatment in
Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells, written by Michelle Duster, Wells’ great-granddaughter.
From the 1890s through the early 20th century, Wells was a pioneering activist and journalist who fought racism by publicizing heinous acts of violence toward Black Americans during the Jim Crow era. Crafted with empathy for and intimate knowledge of this American icon, the book recounts Wells’ many groundbreaking achievements, which caused the FBI to dub her a “dangerous negro agitator” in her time. Unlike in a typical biography, however, Duster