Stanford Professor Adam Banks regularly flies from California to Cleveland to teach free African American studies classes at UnBar, a Black-owned coffee shop, to create a safe space for Black people to engage with their history, culture, and identity.
Jesse Owens
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The Summer Olympics and Black patriotism
Black Americans proudly wear red, white, and blue at the Summer Olympics, celebrating their heritage and patriotism despite the country’s history of racism and exclusion.
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Berlin wasn’t just Jesse Owens’ Olympics
Gymnast Simone Biles. Swimmer Simone Manuel. Shot putter Michelle Carter. All three won gold medals at the Rio 2016 Olympics in sports not typically associated with Black American athletes. Eighty years ago, a grand total of two Black American women athletes, Tidye Pickett and Louise Stokes, both in track and field, traveled to the 1936 […]