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#Holocaust #Holocaust survivor #concentration camp #liberation #history #identitiesMontenegro is drawing outrage for leasing out an island, once used as a fascist concentration camp, to a private developer who plans to turn the site into a luxury hotel. There’ll be a marina, beach club, spa, restaurants, hotel rooms, V.I.P. suites and a dance club. All of this in stark contrast with the atrocities that happened there.
Watch: Drone captures haunting footage of modern-day Auschwitz
Seventy years after the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the pre-eminent symbol of the Holocaust’s horrors, the BBC is giving the world a chance to see the haunting ruins as they’ve never seen it before.
Our constitution is not equally protecting all citizens. We need a different, more equitable system to ensure that black men and women are granted full rights.
Texas’ new American history text books won’t include:
And that’s just the beginning. Facts on segregation are almost completely missing. All of this is, of course, by design.
When we talk about influential moments and people in black history, the conversation often focuses on the contributions of men — leaving the vital efforts of black women by the wayside.
The woman behind MLK during his “I Have a Dream” speech and 8 others we need to remember.
It’s officially Women’s History Month, which means it’s time to celebrate the many accomplishments that are so often looked over throughout the rest of the year.
Nellie Bly - Nellie Bly entered the journalism scene in an unabashedly feminist way, by submitting a letter to The Pittsburgh Dispatch that rebutted one writer’s diatribe about how women belonged in the home. An editor saw Bly’s potential and hired her in 1885. Just two years later, Bly famously posed as a mental patient on Blackwell’s Island for a New York World expose; a few years after, she that took a record-setting, 72-day trip around the world, writing about it for the same paper.
Agent 355 - Long before 007, there was 355. History books would do well to liven their account of the American Revolution by mentioning this member of the Culper Spy Ring, America’s first elite spy network. One of George Washington’s most valuable spies, the woman known only as “Agent 355” was likely the only one who could rock an evening gown while gathering information critical to the colonies’ achieving independence.
Murasaki Shikibu - Little is known about the Japanese author credited with writing the world’s first modern novel, The Tale of Genji, other than that she certainly overcame plenty of obstacles to do so. Even her
name is an invention, drawn from one of the novel’s characters and the
author’s father’s job, according to Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Not only
was Shikibu educated — a rarity for women at any point for most of
history, but especially around the year 1010 — but she also became
literate in both Japanese and Chinese.
Maria W. Stewart - Though her name is (unfortunately) not one often included in history books, Stewart can claim plenty of impressive firsts. She was
the first American woman to speak to an audience of mixed genders and
races, as well as one of the first African American woman to deliver any public speech at all.
Pauli Murray - Pauli Murray wore many hats, and each one was equally impressive. Murray became a civil rights
lawyer in the late 1940s, a particularly impressive feat given that
women in general, let alone black women, had been prohibited from becoming lawyers only decades before.
Read more about these women and 5 others we must never forget.
Every summer, LGBTQ individuals gather all over the world to celebrate their pride in their identities and community. Yet after 45 years of celebrations, it’s clear that not everybody understands how to be the best allies possible during these events. Here’s what everybody needs to know about Pride, according to some of those at the forefront of the movement.
When we talk about influential moments and people in black history, the conversation often focuses on the contributions of men — leaving the vital efforts of black women by the wayside.
But it’s necessary to make sure black women’s contributions are always part of our conversations about history.
More about these incredible women and 4 others who changed American history
In a strong start to Black History Month, Monday’s Google Doodle commemorates the life of Frederick Douglass, an African-American abolitionist who lived during the 19th century. Born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland, in 1818, Douglass went on to live a cerebral life as an intellectual icon and as a civil rights crusader. One awesome tweet pointed out his quote some Republicans of today should read.
When the history civil rights is taught in school, the fight for LGBT equality is often overlooked. But now thanks to Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights, a new young adult non-fiction book by author Ann Bausum, young people may finally get the info they need to hear.
