Tag: Civil Rights Era

Asian American Pacific Islander

Where Black History and Asian American History Meet: June 19th

“Critical Race Theory”?  That’s a term I’ll leave for the protestors at local school boards to shout about.  Serious scholars have more important work.  Me, I’m just a journalist engaged in what I’ve dubbed as  “comparative race experience.” That’s when the damage is done and we all  compare notes and find that people of color […]

June 30, 2021

News Roundup

Morehouse College Receives Mementos From Civil Rights Activists Joseph and Evelyn Lowery

Morehouse College recently received a collection of more than 400 pieces of documents, photographs, notes and diaries from the family of late civil rights activists Dr. Joseph and Evelyn Lowery. With exhibition rights held by Clark Atlanta University, the Joseph Echols Lowery and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection will be featured at the Atlanta University Center […]

May 26, 2021

News Roundup

First Black Graduate of UVA’s School of Law Dies at 87

John F. Merchant, the first Black graduate at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Law and the first African American to serve on the United States Golf Association’s executive committee, died earlier this month at 87, reports The Richmond Free Press. Born in 1933, Merchant paved a way out of poverty by pursuing education. […]

March 18, 2020

African-American

How Should Asian Americans Respond to Asian Racism?

Asian racism is an especially touchy subject for Asian Americans. For every effort to denounce the attitudes overseas comes the inevitable backlash of “Who are you to judge us?”

December 16, 2019