#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'.
She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors.
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Why US restaurant owners will not pay their workers standard wages and instead shift labor costs onto customer's fancy: https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-tipping/
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Summary: This spotlight details the racist history of tipping, federal and state policy governing tipped work, and the experience of tipped workers in the economy—both nationwide and in the South. Across the country, tipped workers are more likely to be people of color, women, women of color, or single parents, and are disproportionately born outside…
L’actualité récente m’a donné envie de redessiner mon « A Brief History of the USA ».
#OnThisDay, 26 Apr 1777, 16 year old Sybil Ludington is said to have ridden 40 miles to warn American colonial forces of a British attack.
There's no contemporary evidence – see https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00452
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Join me in reading Ned Blackhawk's amazing history, The Rediscovery of America. Along the way, I bet we discover a few things about ourselves and our current crises!
Find the reading schedule and video reflections along with a glossary here:
https://waywordsstudio.com/project/blackhawk-rediscovery-of-america/
#nedblackhawk #therediscoveryofamerica #democracy #readingguide #reflections #chapterreflections #history #literacy #indigenoushistory #settlercolonialism #americanhistory #dialectics #survivance #tropesofdiscovery
𝐍𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐰𝐤: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 - 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 -
Full video, glossary, and more on the website.
Reading Guides on Waywords, one chapter and reflection video about every two weeks.
https://waywordsstudio.com/project/blackhawk-rediscovery-of-america/
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#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 2015, Loretta Lynch is confirmed as Attorney General of the US – the first Black woman to hold the post. It's exactly 143 years after Charlotte E Ray became the first Black woman lawyer in the US.
Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/
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#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 1872, Charlotte E Ray was admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia (USA). She is the first Black woman to be certified as a lawyer in the USA.
Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/
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