Brooklyn Historical Society is excited to announce it is now the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library. By combining these institutions, the Center for Brooklyn History (CBH) becomes the most expansive collection of Brooklyn history in the world.
Established in 1863, the Center for Brooklyn History (brooklynhistory.org/) is a nationally recognized urban history center dedicated to preserving and encouraging the study of Brooklyn's extraordinary 400-year history.
CBH offers a wide array of public programming that celebrates the diversity of Brooklyn's past and present and takes a close look at where the borough is headed. With panel discussions with Brooklyn luminaries, screenings of classic and groundbreaking films, thought-provoking talks on Brooklyn's history from new perspectives, and more, BHS has something for everyone. CBH films as many of its programs as possible and makes them available for the public to view online. Enjoy!
Excellent. I learned so much and I am encouraged, especially regarding doing away with the Electoral College. There is hope after all! Thank you for having this important discussion.
Mr. Cummings you with your own resources created a most beautiful museum that comes the most close to trying to tell the history of pain and sacrifice in the most respectful, detailed touching way. Thank you sir. And the art is almost as breathtaking as the persons they are honoring..
PART ONE …… New York city is the most racist & segregated city in America ! New York City also has a Black Mayor , Black attorney general , Black Bronx DA , Black public advocate , Black city councilwoman , Black education czar , black Black deputy mayor , Speaker of New York City council . Why are the most racially pulverized municipalities are headed by Black people ?
Ruth Ben-Ghiat needs to be everywhere. Her analysis of Project 2025 and what it means for the rest of our lives in America is truly terrifying. The fact that it is not leading the news every day is media malpractice at the highest level.
Can somebody point me as to where the Rockaway name came from? Ive been lead to believe by several sources that its possibly of lenape origins and want to get to know my ancestry a lot better
Is it possible to discuss history as it was instead of using new age woke terms? Did the Anglo Dutch Elite leave because they were racist? Were they anti consolidation because of xenophobia? This is not a talk about how great these were or became it’s just bunch of brainwashed leftists that making everything retroactively about race 🙄
This is the most ideotic concept of Leftism/ Liberalism. If you have to divide people on the based of their race then you are not a liberal or progressive.
Sadly, she miss the most important issue facing the South, education. Most of its citizens remains in denial that science, math and just a simple education will make them all better in life. Their conservative values and strong religious upbringing locks their generation in a pattern of obedience to the church, the con-man, and to their parents' ignorance. Their ideals are locked into killing animals for hunting or just for the sake of killing. Their concept of being friendly only goes as far as their skin color, and their abilities to try and learn about the realities of life shut down as soon as a conversation is started. Yes, the kept homogenized within a Southern mindset of ignorance, and yes, they do believe they're egotistically the dominant race in the nation, both are false, and that will be their cycle for their demised as a tribe.
A good companion book. Black labor, white wealth, published 1994, Dr. Anderson's first book is a classic. It tracks slavery and Jim Crow public policies that used black labor to construct a superpower nation. It details how black people were socially engineered into the lowest level of a real life Monopoly game, which they are neither playing or winning. Black Labor is a comprehensive analysis of the issues of race. Dr. Anderson uses the anaylsis in this book to offer solutions to America's race problem.
Yes, young men doing ballet, this is the best answer on how to make a bunch of males get along. You should also make them sing opera and play with dolls.
I hear the "support black business" everywhere i go. But as a non-racist, is it wrong of me to support all business? If jerome, blake, and Jose all made bologna sandwiches. Shouldn't my dollar go towards the best made sandwich, instead of the black made sandwich?
I honestly think that Shelby foot said it best something like 25 years ago. That any understanding of the American character in the 21st century has to have a deep understanding Of the American Civil War. And just like Heather just said. " We are still having this conversation today " And its because it was left unresolved. I think if Lincoln had survived our country would been in a much better place. Because president Lincoln didn't want any trials and penalties and punishments he wanted to unify all his people. And I believe he would have done it. But when Lincoln died it radicalized the Republican party and the teaching the confederates a lesson and made reconstruction another war of attrition. And it would be the Freed people who paid the price for the war and failure if reconstruction. And I truly believe it failed because Lincoln was not there to lead the country through it.
In my maternal line, I am a descendant of a woman whom I have been told was half native American. She may have had Lenape ancestry. Her maiden name was Manuel, and she was born outside of Lenapehoking, in Liverpool, Pennsylvania. I wish that I could find out more about her and her ancestry.
They completely dismiss that their side of the isle might have done something wrong to lead people to vote for T. I thought the lesson from WW2 is not to pre-commit to any one party or ideology with certainty? Kind of disappointing to hear this stuff from Snyder
At the end they were asked if there were historical examples of the slide into autocracy/fascism ever checked and reversed. Snyder referred to the failure of the "Communist Coup" in 1920s Germany. This is an extraordinary and revealing response. There was a failed Communist Workers insurrection, unsupported by the great majority of Germans and by Russia. It wasn't followed by liberalization, it was followed by Nazism. This suggests that Snyder's critics may be correct when they describe him as an anti-communist idealogue. The example of McCarthyism in the US wouldn't occur to him for the same reason.
Malcom X warned Colored Folk years ago about the racist ways of White Liberals. They are and they know they are, don't let them fool you. Colored Folk are also racist, maybe even more so. In fact, not maybe, definitely. They just know they can get away with it. Their best defense would be education, attempting to obey the law, musical training, and to try and stop some gang banger from screaming curse words into a microphone. Ha, good luck.
Everyone laughing at her book and pretty much just picking on her was nauseating. I thought they would discuss her book seriously but they were not very professional at all.
Im always late to the table, so many authors i haven't read, so many discussions i haven't heard. It seems on this particular panel, i don't get to hear the flip side as to why we still have the penalty. I can only imagine without full knowledge of the subject it must have been used as a criminal deterrence and or retribution for the victims loved ones left behind. So if i could ask a rudimentary question. What is the stats that the death penalty plays a role as a deterrent and do loved ones of victims find some sense of closure from it? The Gestaltist would say true closure comes from "filling in missing" people or places as it relates to relationships. I would agree that it would also hold true but quite difficult with respect to missing someone out of an untimely death. For example, a 50 year old mother can't generally juat make another child when an only child has been violently killed. Follow up question, if you take away the penalty are you also taking away from the victims family right to an eye for an eye?
Despite *literally making civilization, maintaining it and keeping it safe from highly diverse (criminal) areas and people, white men get harsh treatment from these women who've accomplished nothing and contributed nothing likewise.*
