The Black Republic https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Orientalism Marion Barry, Man of the People (1936-2014) Killing the African to Save the Child! How Black Lives Matter Plaza in DC Came to Symbolize the Movement’s Tombstone Step Right Up, and Get Your Ticket to The Greatest Show on Earth 2013: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel closes 50 public schools in a single year, the most ever at one time in the U.S. Nearly 90 percent of the closures are of schools that serve majority Black or Latino enrollments. 2000: Dr. Leea Gibson opens the Gibson Youth Academy in Addis Ababa with her husband, Mohammed Aden 1990: Milwaukee launches the nation’s first school choice voucher program. June 16, 1976: Students in Johannesburg’s all-Black township, Soweto, lead a massive protest against the apartheid government’s mandate to use Afrikaans, derived from the Dutch language, as the medium of instruction in schools. Police fatally shoot hundreds of children. March 20, 1969: Administration at San Francisco State University agrees to students’ demands to create the first Black Studies Program in the U.S. May 9, 1968: Black and Puerto Rican parents in Brooklyn take over the management of their children’s failing schools. 1955: A year after the Supreme Court ordered public schools to desegregate, the libertarian economist Milton Friedman published a paper introducing a voucher system that would allow white parents to use public funds to attend private schools Black Republic Media Unearthed Bones Reveal a Graveyard for Maryland’s Enslaved, A Funeral Pyre for Democrats Nationwide Violence is Their Religion! The 2020 Census shows that the District’s African American population has plummeted to 41 percent from roughly 70 percent in 1970 Anthony Williams inaugurated ast D.C. Mayor Marion Barry inaugurated as D.C. Mayor A second attempt by the University of California’s Board of Regents to fire Angela Davis from her UCLA teaching job fails. Black Student Union leads protests at San Francisco State University that produce the College of Ethnic Studies. A Virginia lawyer, Lewis J. Powell, writes a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, exhorting big business to purge leftists from university teaching positions. In a keynote speech at Harvard University President Lawrence Summers asserts that innate gender differences largely explained women’s underrepresentation in science fields. Columbia University complies with the Trump administration’s demands to put the School of Middle Eastern Studies under receivership. Harvard’s Swiss-born biologist, Louis Agassiz, commissions intimate photographs of South Carolina slaves to prove Blacks’ inferiority Harvard admits first Black student Marion Barry arrested in an FBI sting operation for crack cocaine use and possession. In a speech in Greenwood, Mississippi, Kwame Ture introduces the phrase “Black Power” 1965 SNCC’s first chair, Marion Barry, moves to Washington DC to open a SNCC chapter A group of college students form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at another historically Black college in North Carolina, Shaw University Four freshmen at historically Black North Carolina A&T sit at a Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter and refuse to leave until they are served Series List The U.S. Bans the Importation of African Slaves President Abraham Lincoln Signs the Emancipation Proclamation Newly Freed African Americans Purchase Plots of Land in Maryland’s River Road Community Near Washington D.C. Land Records Show That Two, 2-Acre Plots of Land Were Sold to Formerly Enslaved Buyers, John Burley and Nelson Wood U.S. Census Records 24 Households and 102 People, All Black, Living in River Road Community U.S. Supreme Court’s Plessy Vs. Ferguson Decision Codifies Segregation, Confining Blacks to All-Black Communities The Timeline Land in River Road Sold for Use As a Cemetery to African American Benevolent Society Join the BRM Family! U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Brown Vs. Topeka Board of Education Desegregrates Public Schools Ushering in an Era of Racial Integration Montgomery County Widens River Road and Constructs Little Falls Parkway Leading to the Erasure of the All-Black Community Fighting White Settler Colonialism from Ferguson to Gaza: Why Blacks See Themselves in the Palestinians’ Freedom Struggle Against Israel The Political Bait and Switch: Why White Liberals Rediscover Their Whiteness in Black Crisis Ain’t I a Woman: White Feminists’ Enduring Blindspot Does God Want Black People to Be Free: The Role of the Black Church in Liberation The Big Score: How White America Transformed Blacks into 48 Million ATMs What’s your Malcom Moment? Like Oil and Water: Affirmative Action and Apartheid The Black Republic Team