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By The Ford Foundation
A consortium of foundations – the Ford Foundation, The J. Paul Getty Trust, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation – has acquired the archive of Johnson Publishing Company, publisher of the iconic Ebony and Jet magazines.
The archive includes more than 4 million prints and negatives comprising the most significant collection of photographs cataloguing African-American life in the 20th century.
Posted on July 26, 2019
By Wendy Mellilo/The Conversation
Smokey Bear turns 75 on August 9th.
The star of the longest-running public-service advertising campaign in U.S. history is now big on social media, with Facebook, Flickr, Instagram and Twitter accounts.
Posted on July 21, 2019
By SIU Press
“Between 1910 and 1920, the Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) inaugurated a massive organizing drive in the city’s meatpacking and steel industries.
“Although the CFL sought legitimately progressive goals, worked earnestly to organize an interracial union, and made major inroads among both black and white workers, their efforts resulted in a bitter defeat.
“David Bates provides a clear picture of how even the most progressive of intentions can be ground to a halt.”
Posted on July 9, 2019
By Susanna Lee/The Conversation
At the end of May, it happened again. A mass shooter killed 12 people, this time at a municipal center in Virginia Beach. Employees had been forbidden to carry guns at work, and some lamented that this policy had prevented “good guys” from taking out the shooter.
This trope – “the good guy with a gun” – has become commonplace among gun rights activists. Where did it come from?
Posted on July 5, 2019
