March has been National Women’s History Month since 1987. It is amazing to realize that just two decades before that, the profession of history did not recognize women’s history as a valid field of inquiry.
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St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter shares a special video message with his thoughts on thoughts on Black History Month.
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In celebration of Black History Month, the Minnesota Humanities Center has asked some of our friends to write essays to share with you their thoughts on black history and culture, as well as on broad issues of racial and social justice. Like a good conversation with friends after a good…
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“Slavery is not African and Black history, it’s an interruption of African and Black history. Let’s be clear, slavery and colonialism is European history!”
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I managed to meet prize-winning Macalester College novelist/professor Marlon James last year following the publication of his epic fantasy saga "Black Leopard, Red Wolf." It's the first of a planned trilogy in the Afrofuturist orbit: the multidisciplinary movement to imagine or reimagine human technological, social, and political futures and pasts through black speculative cultural lenses.
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I am part of the first generation in my family to be born after the end of legal segregation by skin color. My parents and I were the second African American family to move into my hometown (in 1976), and the first such family preceded us by only three years.
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In celebration of Black History Month, the Minnesota Humanities Center has asked some of our friends to write essays to share with you their thoughts on black history and culture, as well as on broad issues of racial and social justice. Like a good conversation with friends after a good…
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At the dawn of the formation of our country, and even begrudgingly to this day, the existing political and social hierarchy of our nation has sought to deny and frustrate the inalienable rights of African Americans to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Since the video of the murder…
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A new movement has begun to recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday. Proponents stress the need for America never to forget how racial slavery has been imprinted upon the soul of the nation and to always remember how the descendants of enslaved African Americans continue to shape its present and future.
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As the leader of the Minnesota Humanities Center, envisioning a just society that is connected, curious, and compassionate, we send our condolences to the family of George Floyd and his many friends.
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