
Louis Congo: Ex-Slave and Executioner of Louisiana
On November 21, 1725, African slave Louis Congo was freed and made a salaried public executioner in Louisiana by the ...
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George Jackson in a Global Frame
Fifty years ago, George Lester Jackson’s Blood in My Eye dropped like a bomb, but the author did not live to hear ...
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‘Welcome to East Austin’: Black Power and the American Dream
This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. In 1971, the Community United Front, ...
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Black Religious Fostering of American Civic Ideals
This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Black Christians have been key agents ...
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John Hope Franklin and WWII as a Crisis of Democracy
This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Since its 1947 publication, extensive literature ...
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Norman Lewis and the Responsibility of Presentness
This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. The general consensus, scholarly and lay, ...
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