Red states are limiting Black history lessons in public schools at the same time scholars are producing groundbreaking new works around art, slavery, civil rights, and the Great Migration.
, an organization dedicated to advancing Black Studies, is holding its annual conference next month at the University of Florida.
It's the first in-person gathering for the organization since the pandemic, Amilcar Shabazz, a history professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, tells Axios.What's next: Shabazz and Horne said states' restrictions won't stop the momentum of exciting work in Black history, but could make it harder for new scholars to get jobs.
"The discouragement is the highest for folks who are in the pipeline...the dissertation writers and the recent PhDs," Shabazz— in which a white mob violently attacked the predominantly African American town of Rosewood, Florida, and wiped it out. It's unclear whether teachers in Florida, under new restrictions, can even bring up the massacre without facing discipline.
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