Not Even Past » African American History

The brutal killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis this summer marked a key event in the history of violence against Black Americans. But it was just one of many acts of violence that ha...

https://notevenpast.org/violence-against-black-people-in-america-a-cliovis-timeline/

by Jaden Janak On May 31, 1921, Greenwood, a district in Tulsa, Oklahoma crafted by Black business people and professionals, burned to the ground. After a young white girl accused Dick Rowland, a...

https://notevenpast.org/rising-from-the-ashes-the-oklahoma-eagle-and-its-long-road-to-preservation/

In 1849, sixty-five “ladies of Fayette County” Tennessee wanted their State legislature to know that a central dimension of patriarchy was failing. In a collective petition, they highlighted ...

https://notevenpast.org/white-women-and-the-economy-of-slavery/

By Kathryn Fuller-Seeley In December 1939 Academy Award nominated, African American actress Hattie McDaniel was barred from attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, Georgia becau...

https://notevenpast.org/eddie-anderson-the-black-film-star-created-by-radio/

by Brandon Render Prior to the publication of “The Case for Reparations” in 2013, Ta-Nehisi Coates was a little-known blogger turned Senior Editor of The Atlantic magazine. Today, Coates has ...

https://notevenpast.org/we-were-eight-years-in-power-by-ta-nehisi-coates-2017/

by Tiana Wilson As we approach the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 50th anniversary of his death, April 4, 1968, it is crucial to appreciate King entirely. Beyond his push for n...

https://notevenpast.org/king-pilgrimage-to-the-mountaintop-by-harvard-sitkoff-2009/

By Luritta DuBois When Hollywood media websites announced Chadwick Boseman would portray Thurgood Marshall in December 2015, people immediately slammed director Reginald Hudlin’s choice to sele...

https://notevenpast.org/historical-perspectives-on-marshall-dir-reginal-hudlin-2017/

by Kate Grover  When I was nineteen, I was bestowed with some of the highest praise a person can receive. It happened at a rehearsal for The Vagina Monologues (go figure…) when some cast membe...

https://notevenpast.org/demystifying-cool-a-brief-history/

By Jacqueline Jones This week on February 15 and 16, the Littlefield Lecture Series in the Department of History presents Dr. Steven Hahn, Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian and Professor of Histor...

https://notevenpast.org/the-works-of-steven-hahn/

By Peter Kunze In a recent interview with Fusion about how Hamilton (2015) “revolutionized” Broadway for performers of color, the Tony Award-winning lead, Leslie Odom, Jr., recalled, “I s...

https://notevenpast.org/before-hamilton/