This website is the news center for the University of San Diego. It features recent news articles, press releases, and information about the university. The article featured on the homepage discusses the history of butter pecan ice cream in the South and its connection to racism. 


The origin of Butter Pecan Ice Cream

This HuffPost article discusses Martin Luther King Jr.'s complicated relationship with guns. It highlights that despite his later embrace of nonviolence, King initially owned firearms for self-protection during the early days of the civil rights movement. The article contrasts King's approach with that of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, who saw guns as a means of self-defense against police brutality. It also explores the historical context of gun control laws in the US, particularly the Gun Control Act of 1968, and the influence of the civil rights movement on the modern gun rights movement. 


MLK and His Guns | HuffPost

This website is about the origins of Black History Month and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). It details the history of the organization, its founder Carter G. Woodson, and the evolution of Negro History Week into Black History Month. The website also provides information about ASALH's mission, its current activities, and how to get involved. 


 The Origins of Black History Month

The Quaker Roots Of Civil Rights In Education

The website article from History.com details the history of the "Negro Motorist Green Book," a travel guide published from 1936 to 1966 that provided African Americans with information on safe places to eat, sleep, and travel during the Jim Crow era in the United States. The article discusses the guide's origins, its expansion to include international travel, and its eventual obsolescence following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 
