Setting it Straight: Race and Racism, Minority Groups
Reaching back in time to discover and shine a light on events and peoples whose roles in shaping history may be unknown, misunderstood, or misrepresented.
August 25th, 2010
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Danish artist Anna Kirstine Brøndum-Ancher was born in Skagen in 1859, the daughter of a grocer/hotel owner. Skagen was a Danish fishing community located on the northernmost tip of Jutland. It was also the site of a well-regarded artist colony, where Danish marine painters had received their inspiration throughout the nineteenth century. Thus, the many local artists in the area influenced Anna...
July 21st, 2010
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March 2, 1955 was the wrong day to mess with Claudette Colvin.She and her classmates at Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery, AL, – one of two all-black high schools in the city – left class early that late winter's day so teachers could attend a faculty meeting. The weather was unusually muggy and summerlike – a good day to ride the bus home.Colvin, an energetic and bespectacled 15-...
June 30th, 2010
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For most of the 68 years he’s lived, William L. Hensley, has called Alaska home. He’s from a group of people commonly known as Eskimos. However, his people call themselves Inupiaq, which means the Real People. Their relatives are the Yupik and a sub-group is the Chupik, all are referred to as Eskimos. Sometimes they are called Inuit. Hensley says they don’t mind that but it’s actually their word...
June 21st, 2010
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On May 1, Pakistani-American Muslim, Faisal Shahzad, left a Nissan Pathfinder rigged with a makeshift explosive to go off in Times Square. Although the bomb attempt failed, it further widened the door to racial division between the Muslim world and the West. Since the Sept.11, 2001, attacks, Islamic terrorism has engulfed our society, creating ripple effects in our daily life. No-fly lists and...
May 26th, 2010
Written by Jessica Rodriguez in Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
From the mythical Greeks, Icarus and Daedalus, to Italian inventor Leonardo da Vinci, man has been fascinated with the idea of flying. Enea Bossi, through various experiments, was responsible for the world’s first stainless steel airplane.Born March 29, 1888, in Milan, Bossi studied physics and mathematics at the Instituto Technico from which he graduated in 1907, in Lodi, Italy. Bossi’s...
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