Due April 28 for articles published between April 2 and April 28

The assignments consist of finding a newspaper article that appears during the time period of the course listed in the assignment, either in a local paper or in an on-line newspaper such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun Times, Washington Post, Greenwood Commonwealth or any other United States or English language newspaper. This means CNN, yahoo, Fox News, MSNBC, Huffington Post, etc. are not eligible for these assignments.ONLY NEWSPAPERS/NEWSPAPER websites.

Each article must have some discussion of, or allusion to, African American history, culture, etc..

3. You are to summarize the article and the point of view of the author.

4. Then indicate whether your textbook sheds any light on the subject---use the index and cite the textbook pages.

5. Comment on how history is "used" by contemporary authors to support their points of view or illustrate subject matters they deal with.

6. Have you learned anything from the article?

7. Finally, and most importantly, what are the specific sources the author(s) cite(s)/uses to support the article? How does the author prove to the reader that they have facts to back up their writing? [for examples, interviews of a particular person, a government document, a poster created for an event, etc.]