Hop Hipology: January 2016

Monday, January 18, 2016

micdotcom: micdotcom: Children’s book portrays Washington’s...

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Children’s book portrays Washington’s slaves as happy

Former journalist Ramin Ganeshram’s children’s book A Birthday Cake for George Washington is stirring a batter of controversy online. Critics have slammed Ganeshram for writing an unsettling and sanitized version of slavery, for children. Rather than accept the criticism, Ganeshram is pushing back and defending her work.

UPDATE 1/18: While the author defended her work, Scholastic has shown some common sense and taken action in response to the controversy.

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bellygangstaboo: Cut the Crap, Cue the Truth

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Cut the Crap, Cue the Truth

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notevenpastuthistory: Martin Luther King Jr. stands in front of...

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Martin Luther King Jr. stands in front of a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott. Montgomery, Alabama December 26, 1956. (Photo Credit: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Martin Luther King Jr is arrested by two white police officers in Montgomery Alabama on September 4, 1958. (Photo Credit: Bettman/Corbis)

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. sits in a jail cell at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama. October 1967. (Photo Credit: Bettman/Corbis)

Dr. King (left) and Stokely Carmichael (right) walk together during the March Against Fear in Mississippi June, 1966. (Photo Credit: Flip Schulke/Corbis )

Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife, Coretta, lead a five-day march to the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery in 1965. (Photo Credit: Bettman/Corbis)

Martin Luther King leading march from Selma to Montgomery to protest lack of voting rights for African Americans. Beside King is John Lewis, Reverend Jesse Douglas, James Forman and Ralph Abernathy. March 1965. (Steve Schapiro/Corbis)

Rev. King waves to the crowd at the March on Washington, August 28,1963. (Photo Credit: Bettman/Corbis)