Doreen St. Felix, staff writer for The original Yorker, discusses her original piece, or The Farce,and the Grandeur, of Black History Month Under Trump.” St. Felix looks at the superficial nature and commercial appropriation of Black History Month. She also charts her own path of learning approximately Black History, and from high school curricula that oversimplified figures like George Washington Carver and Harriet Tubman,to finding an intellectual domestic as an undergrad in Brown University’s Africana Studies Department.
Listeners, tweet at or call us approximately what you wish your school taught you approximately Black History!This segment is guest hosted by Hari Kondabolou.
Source: thetakeaway.org