A professor at Penn State University documented the “unremembered history” of Black political organizing. “We’ve got a movement that is so resonant with today’s political issues, and yet, we didn’t know about it,” she says. - NBCBLK
MacArthur FoundationA professor at Penn State University who documented the “unremembered history” of Black political organizing is one of this year’s 25 MacArthur fellows, a select group of scholars who receive $800,000 no-strings-attached “genius grants” to further their work.Wednesday that P.
“We knew about the anti-slavery movement; we knew about abolition,” she said. “But the very same African Americans that were involved with those were advocating for the very same things that are on the table today.” “We’ve got a movement that is so resonant with today’s political issues, and yet, we didn’t know about it,” she said.
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