In Love and Struggle: A New Book on James and Grace Lee Boggs
This post is part of a blog series that announces the release of selected new works in African American History and
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Black Family
Why the Academic Achievement Gap is a Racist Idea
“Standardized tests have become the most effective racist weapon ever devised to objectively degrade Black minds and legally exclude their
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Slavery and Violence in the Old South: An Interview with Jeff Forret
This month I interviewed Dr. Jeff Forret, Professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. He is the author
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Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century: A New Book on Black Girls in Literature
This post is part of a recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in
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Black Girls, Domestic Violence, and the Limits of Self-Defense
The case of Bresha Meadows, an African American teenage girl in Ohio, is a sad commentary on the failure of
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