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Archiving While Black

June 18, 2018June 23, 2018 Ashley Farmer archives, Historical Memory

Among the things 2018 will be known for is mainstream culture’s realization that white Americans use the police to challenge

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Langston Hughes on Film: An Interview with Darren Canady and Randal Maurice Jelks

June 12, 2018June 16, 2018 Imani A. Wadud archives, art, black intellectual history, blackness, film, Harlem Renaissance, music

In today’s post, University of Kansas PhD Candidate, Imani A. Wadud, interviews Darren Canady and Randal Maurice Jelks on their new

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#SayHerName–Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls: An Interview with Andrea J. Ritchie

June 11, 2018June 16, 2018 Jenn M. Jackson Black women, police brutality, police violence

In today’s post, Jenn M. Jackson, writer and doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago,

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#SummerReading: Recommended New Books on the Black Experience

June 11, 2018June 16, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history

With summer quickly approaching, I have compiled a list of recommended new non-fiction books. All of these books, which were

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History, Memory, and Racial Violence in America

June 8, 2018June 12, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Historical Memory, Historiography, Jim Crow, lynching, mass incarceration, Racial Violence, racism, slavery, South, white supremacy

In April 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) opened the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and the National

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