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A Q&A with Margaret Grace Myers | Sex ed, from the very beginning, has always had to push back against this idea that it was teaching “just the facts.” This was one of the things that early critics, along with contemporary critics, were extremely concerned about—that students were being taught “raw facts” without the “correct”…
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A Q&A with Margaret Grace Myers | I really fell into the topic of the history of sex ed in the United States while doing research about my great grandparents, who were both biologists at the turn of the twentieth century in Baltimore. They were casually involved in the social hygiene movement, which was a…
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By Paul Ortiz | I came of age in a society that did not work. It especially did not function adequately for working-class people and our families. Growing up in the shadows of Watergate, the American War in Vietnam and deindustrialization, our elders shared two pieces of wisdom to explain the economic and social chaos…
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More sparks will be flying this Fourth of July, and not just the sparklers and fireworks variety. Since the orange-dusted despot took office for a second term, we have born witness to the dysfunction of the democracy machine in accelerated mode. Project 2025’s authoritarian agenda is the monkey wrench thrown in the works, causing said…
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By Kavita Das | On July 5, 1852, brilliant orator, fierce abolitionist, and former slave, Frederick Douglass, gave an impassioned speech entitled “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.” In his speech, Douglass interrogated and excoriated the hypocrisy of Americans to celebrate the seventy-sixth year of their independence while denying the independence and basic…
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By Carlos Cueva Caro | One of my main interests throughout my four years as a history major was colonial history. As I researched different narratives of colonial America, it became evident that these stories tended to focus on the white male settlers as the protagonists, erasing other groups of people and stripping them of…
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By Christian Coleman | Gasp! Google Calendar looks much less iridescent and fabulous this June. It’s giving a serious case of the blahs, and the face card is nothing but a 404 error. Where’s that righteous realness for human rights? Oh, that’s right. Google Calendar banished Pride Month into the cyber memory hole. Well, that’s…
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By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall | The God I serve does not live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, run a multinational corporation, or control social media empires. As we bear witness to the schemes and diabolical machinations of this administration, we each shift through stages of grieving our loss, feelings of despair, depression, shock, trepidation and numbness,…
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By Kyle T. Mays | The discourse of Black Power and Red Power existed side by side. The phrase “Black Power” emerged as a rallying cry in Greenwood, Mississippi, in June 1966, in a speech by Stokely Carmichael during the March Against Fear, which was organized after the shooting of James Meredith. While there were…
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By Christian Coleman | Did you check your phones? Is it any shock that Google Calendar genuflected to the current scorched-earth administration’s anti-DEI tour and removed Black History Month from its holiday list during Black History Month? Is it a shock that they claimed their holiday list wasn’t “globally scalable or sustainable?” Talk about Big…
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