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[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-news-lessons/2024/02/a-look-at-the-history-of-racism-in-america-and-its-role-in-todays-divisions by PBS 9/2/24] | [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-news-lessons/2024/02/a-look-at-the-history-of-racism-in-america-and-its-role-in-todays-divisions by PBS 9/2/24] | ||
The fact that our country is divided isn’t new. In many respects, it can be traced back to the founding of a nation on the promise of freedom while dependent on slavery, a time when many couldn’t participate in the democracy being created. In a conversation with retired naval Commander Theodore Johnson, Judy Woodruff examines how that founding contradiction has evolved and what it means for our challenges today. | The fact that our country is divided isn’t new. In many respects, it can be traced back to the founding of a nation on the promise of freedom while dependent on slavery, a time when many couldn’t participate in the democracy being created. In a conversation with retired naval Commander Theodore Johnson, Judy Woodruff examines how that founding contradiction has evolved and what it means for our challenges today. | ||
====='Long Time Coming' Explores Birth, Uninterrupted History Of Systemic Racism In U.S.===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/2020/12/03/940115722/long-time-coming-explores-birth-uninterrupted-history-of-systemic-racism-in-u-s by Gabino Iglesias 3/12/20 npr] | |||
From the abused, stolen bodies pressed together inside slave ships to the lynching of Emmett Till to the battered body of George Floyd pressed against the ground under a police officer's knee, Dyson uses the history of anti-blackness and violence against Black people to map out the way systemic racism was created and how it has operated, uninterrupted, since America's birth. | |||
