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While looking forward to keynote speakers at @NCSSNetwork conf. in Phila., we're listening to their podcasts. Like @hmcghee's "Sum of Us." Each episode a story of interracial solidarity. For exp., Manhattan Beach on land taken from Black family in 1924. 🧵open.spotify.com/episode/0rrSqE…
Heather McGhee is an artful storyteller in #TheSumofUsPod.

Listeners learn about Bruce’s Beach Resort (also in #SeizingFreedom pod by @KidadaEWilliams) & 2020's campaign to make amends, repair, reparations.

Would pair well with reparations lesson ⬇️
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Other episodes include stories of campaigns for voting rights, better pay, Black farm land, environmental justice, sundown towns, reproductive rights.

Stories reminiscent of interracial solidarity during Reconstruction & Southern Tenant Farmers Union. All too rare in textbooks.
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#tdih 1905 Robert Abbott founded "Chicago Defender" -- goal: “American Race Prejudice Must Be Destroyed.”

Paper had a national audience and a major influence on Great Migration, culture, & the struggle for civil and human rights. Read ⬇️& see @blackpast zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/chic…
In articles, lessons, textbooks, podcasts about 20th century, they often identify "Black press" but otherwise report on "the press."

The "white press" or "corporate media" should also be named as such.

Always ask: What did Black press report at time? zinnedproject.org/materials/news…
We recommend the documentary "The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords" by @StanleyNelson1 via California Newsreel.

Any study of U.S. history should include central, critical role of Black press, & the constant threats and attacks by white supremacists. zinnedproject.org/materials/sold…
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