Policing Black Freedom
*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study
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Activism
Myles Horton, Highlander, and the Beloved Community
On the night of March 29, 2019, an administrative building at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,
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Bob Moses and the Fighting Spirit of Black Intellectual History
The recent passing of Bob Moses offers a quiet moment to consider the varied lessons intellectual historians—and others—should take from
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Racial Fascism in the Postwar United States
The Communist Party (CPUSA) was a leader in the antifascist left in the 1930s. The Party had a broad
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Black Mothers and the Lingering Wounds of Racial Violence
The resulting grief and trauma that follows Black mothers whose children are victims of terrorizing acts of racial violence persist
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