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The Messenger
The Messenger was a political and literary magazine by and for Black people that was important to the
flowering of the Harlem Renaissance and initially promoted a socialist political view.
Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph co-founded The Messenger in New York City in 1917.
Image: public domain; source: Wikipedia; accessed on Sept. 26, 2020; additional design: Team Media 2070
1. Soyica Diggs Colbert, Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics, Rutgers University Press, 2017, p. 118: https://bit.ly/337EOyO
2. Evan Hill, Ainara Tiefenthäler, Christiaan Triebert, Drew Jordan, Haley Willis and Robin Stein, “How George Floyd Was Killed in Police Custody,” The New York Times, May 31, 2020, updated Aug.
13, 2020: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/george-floyd-investigation.html
3. Christopher Zara, “‘Defund the Police’ Goes from Slogan to Reality: Here’s a Roundup of Major City PDs Facing Changes,” Fast Company, June 8, 2020: https://www.fastcompany.com/90513996/
defund-the-police-goes-from-slogan-to-reality-heres-a-roundup-of-major-city-pds-facing-changes; “‘America’s Moment of Reckoning’: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Cornel West on Uprising Against
Racism,” Democracy Now!, July 3, 2020: https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/3/americas_moment_of_reckoning_keeanga_yamahtta; Robin Pogrebin and Julia Jacobs, “Floyd Case Forces Arts
Groups to Enter the Fray,” The New York Times, June 7, 2020, updated June 9, 2020: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/arts/museums-theaters-protests.html
4. Ibid Christopher Zara; Joey Hadden, “How the Top 25 Colleges and Universities in the U.S. Are Responding to the Black Lives Matter Protests,” Business Insider, June 25, 2020:
https://www.businessinsider.com/college-top-us-universities-respond-black-lives-matter-protests-2020-6#rice-university-4; Kimberly Drew, “What Should a Museum Look Like in 2020?”
Vanity Fair, Aug. 24, 2020: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2020/08/what-should-a-museum-look-like-in-2020; Khadeeja Safdar, Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg and Benjamin Mullin, “America’s
Newsrooms Face a Reckoning on Race After Floyd Protests,” The Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2020: https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-newsrooms-face-a-reckoning-on-race-after-floydprotests-11592256570
5. Jordan E. Taylor, “Enquire of the Printer: The Slave Trade and Early American Newspaper Advertising,” July 21, 2020: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/
stories/7d6dcdc8d7a24d34a08f1605e64c292e; Dave Davies’ interview with David Zucchino, “‘Wilmington’s Lie’ Author Traces the Rise of White Supremacy in a Southern City,” Fresh Air, NPR, Jan.
13, 2020: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/13/795892582/wilmington-s-lie-author-traces-the-rise-of-white-supremacy-in-a-southern-city
6. Ibid Dave Davies; Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns, Random House, 2010, p. 39; bio of Isabel Wilkerson, accessed on Aug. 27, 2020: https://www.isabelwilkerson.com/; Ryan Mac
and Carolina Haskins, “Facebook Has Been Profiting from Boogaloo Ads Promoting Civil War And Unrest,” BuzzFeed News, June 30, 2020: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/
facebook-instagram-profit-boogaloo-ads; Kay Mills, “Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case That Transformed Television,” Prologue Magazine, Fall 2004, Vol. 36, No. 3: https://www.archives.gov/
publications/prologue/2004/fall/channels-1.htm
7. “Is America Possible: Building a Multiracial Democracy in an Era of Division,” plenary session, Facing Race 2018 conference, Nov. 10, 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_
continue=1&v=J7wxxKTq8ws&feature=emb_logo (Ramos’ comments start at the 19-minute 30-second mark); bio of Tarso Luís Ramos, executive director of Political Research Associates, accessed
on Aug. 17, 2020: https://www.politicalresearch.org/bio/tarso-luis-ramos
8. David Leonhardt and Ian Prasad Philbrick, “Donald Trump’s Racism: The Definitive List, Updated,” The New York Times, Jan. 15, 2018: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/15/opinion/
leonhardt-trump-racist.html
9. Edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster, Southern Horrors and Other Writing: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892–1900 (second edition), Bedford/St. Martin, 2006, pp. 66–67
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