2010s
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Key events
- August 16, 2016Simone Biles dominates the Rio Olympics
Biles wins four golds and cements herself as one of the greatest gymnasts ever.
- September 24, 2016The National Museum of African American History opens
The Smithsonian opens its landmark museum on the National Mall.
- February 26, 2017"Moonlight" wins Best Picture
Barry Jenkins's film becomes the first with an all-Black cast to win Best Picture.
- February 16, 2018Black Panther
Ryan Coogler's film becomes a global cultural phenomenon and box-office landmark.
- April 16, 2018Kendrick Lamar wins the Pulitzer
"DAMN." becomes the first non-classical, non-jazz work to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Resources from this period
Books·5
Book· 2019
The 1619 Project
Nikole Hannah-Jones, ed.
Reframing US history around the consequences of slavery.
Book· 2016
Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi
A National Book Award history of racist ideas in America.
Book· 2014
The Half Has Never Been Told
Edward E. Baptist
Slavery and the making of American capitalism.
Book· 2010
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
The definitive narrative history of the Great Migration.
Book· 2010
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
Mass incarceration as a system of racial control.