Professor Matthew Delmont decided a few years ago that he wanted to change how he teaches
African American history.
马修 德尔蒙特教授多年前决定，要改变他教授非裔美国人历史的方式。
Delmont teaches at Dartmouth College in the state of New Hampshire.
德尔蒙特任任教于新罕布什尔州的达特茅斯学院。
At first, Delmont turned to Twitter. There, he shared stories of the everyday lives of African Americans he read about in black newspapers.
起初，他转而使用推特，将自己在黑人报纸上读到的关于非洲裔美国人日常生活的故事，分享到推特上。
That project expanded in November to become the website Black Quotidian. There, readers will find life stories of hundreds of African Americans taken from black newspapers. The stories appeared in publications between the early 1900s and the 1980s.
该项目在11月得到扩展，成立了网站——Black Quotidian(非裔日常故事）。读者可以在网站上浏览关于非裔美国人的生活故事，这些故事来自20世纪初到80年代的黑人报纸出版物中。
The website contains copies of stories from more than 10 black newspapers, such as the Chicago Defender and the Pittsburgh Courier. It also has audio recordings, pictures and videos.
网站收录超过10家黑人报纸的报道，当中包括芝加哥卫报（Chicago Defender），匹兹堡信使（Pittsburgh Courier）等。还收录了录音、图片和视频报道。
"l felt like my students were coming away from the class only thinking African American history was about these civil right(s) marches or about martyrs," Delmont said.
德尔蒙特说：“学生下课后仅仅将非裔美国人的历史和民权游行或烈士联系在一起。”
"I felt like they spent so much time thinking about black death that they were losing sight of the broader complexity, really the beautiful aspects of African American history."
“他们花了太多时间思考黑死病问题，以至于忽略了更广泛的复杂性，那才是非裔美国人历史中最美丽的一面。”
The website shows African Americans who made their mark in sports, politics, the military and other areas. Among them are icons like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activist Rosa Parks. But Delmont also aims to bring attention to lesser known people.
该网站展示了在体育、政治、军事和其他领域留下印记的非裔美国人。其中包括不少和马丁·路德·金博士和民权活动家罗莎 帕克斯一样的象征性代表。
One of them is Juanita Blocker. She was the first black member of the Professional Women's Bowling Association. She wrote about bowling in the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper for 20 years.
胡安妮塔 布洛克尔也是其中之一。她是职业女子保龄球协会的第一位非裔会员，并为《洛杉矶哨兵报》（Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper）写了20年与保龄球相关的文章。
The website also tells about Claudette Colvin of Montgomery, Alabama. As a 15-year-old, she refused to give up her seat on a bus – nine months before Rosa Parks did the same.
该网站还讲述了阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利的克劳德特·科尔文的故事。15岁时，她就在公共汽车上拒绝让座，这比罗莎·帕克斯早了9个月。
Delmont said, "These iconic figures are important but we need to understand the everyday people doing important things in their community." He added that he has observed a growing interest in rediscovering overlooked African Americans.
德尔蒙特说：“这些象征人物非常重要，但我们更需要了解那些在各自的社区中做着重要事情的人们。”
他还说，他注意到人们对重新发现被忽视的非洲裔美国人越来越感兴趣。
Delmont said he hopes the website brings attention to black newspapers. He said the publications were especially important for African American communities that had recently migrated north. The newspapers described people's daily lives. They provided news of everything from politics to sports to weddings.
他希望这个网站能引起人们对黑人报纸的注意。而这些出版物对最近迁移到北方的非裔美国人社区尤其重要。
Ethan Michaeli worked for the Chicago Defender and wrote a book about the newspaper. He said Delmont's website is offering a fresh look at the role these newspapers played in black communities. Many of the papers included on the website have closed or no longer print newspapers. 伊森·米夏埃利曾为《芝加哥后卫报》工作，并写过一本关于该报的书。他说，德尔蒙特的网站重新审视了这些报纸在黑人社区中所扮演的角色。网站上的报纸大多已经关闭或不再印刷了。
Michaeli said, "I'm very excited about it as kind of serving as the bridge between the past and the present in this way.”
伊森·米夏埃利说：“我非常高兴，它能以这种方式作为连结过去和现在的桥梁。“
