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"This is not a history about what happened to them over there in Tulsa or Juneteenth or the civil rights movement," says professor and historian Peniel Joseph. "This is our history."
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The U.S. can come together after the challenges of the past year — but it must face some ugly parts of its history to do so, says Peniel Joseph, director of the LBJ School's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy.
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A lot of painful things are dividing Americans in 2020. But Peniel Joseph with the LBJ School of Public Affairs says, "There's no time to be tired."
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Numbers from UT Austin show that only 5.1% of its students are Black. While the university says the number of Black undergraduates on campus has risen…
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are frequently seen as opposing forces in the struggle for civil rights but Peniel Joseph, author of The Sword and the Shield, says the truth is more nuanced.
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Calls have been mounting to make Juneteenth a national holiday amid protests for police reforms and racial justice. Juneteenth commemorates the day when…
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Peniel Joseph writes that Martin Luther King Jr. is "most comfortably portrayed as the nonviolent insider," while Malcolm X "is characterized as a…