How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America The Black Panthers used maps to reimagine the cities where African Americans lived and struggled By Derek H. Alderman - Joshua F.J. Inwood ...

Drawing on data from the 2010 U.S. Census, the map shows one dot per person, color-coded by race. That's 308,745,538 dots in all.

A free Black man, Benjamin Banneker, helped map the boundaries of America’s new capital city. In a letter, he urged future president Thomas Jefferson to broaden his concerns beyond British ...

Yet White America has traditionally been leery of Black people with guns. One historian, in a 2016 column in The Washington Post, said , “The right to bear arms has mostly been for White people.” ...

"This map makes crystal clear just how dramatically the face of America is changing — and how quickly," Angela Glover Blackwell, the Founder & CEO of PolicyLink told AOL Black Voices.

An early 20th-century NAACP map showing lynchings between 1909 and 1918. The maps were sent to politicians and newspapers in an effort to spur legislation protecting Black Americans. Library of ...

How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America Published: February 23, 2021 8:29am EST Derek H. Alderman , University of Tennessee , Joshua F.J. Inwood , Penn State ...