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An image from the film Gone with the Wind the most well known portrayal of the mammy stereotype.

Portrait of film director Oscar Micheaux

Comedy in race films.

The Academy Awards (oscars) has such lack of representation when it comes to winners. In addition, the group who votes/selects the awards are 90% white and therefore leads to unconscious bias

A political cartoon depicting the destruction of public schools to be turned into private schooling.

a Political cartoon from the Signe Wilkinson about the change from public in person to public online schooling due to the covid-19 pandemic

Supplies left behind at Joy Middle School, which closed in 2007 and was demolished several years later

Illegal scrappers removed the windows, lockers, and wiring from the Hutchins Intermediate School in Detroit shortly after it was closed.