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The White Press & Jim Crow

February 23, 2023February 22, 2023 Justin Laing Jim Crow, journalism, New South, Newspapers, segregation

Within a frame of a two competing ideas of the United States “one liberal, the other illiberal,” Journalism and Jim Crow

Queen Latifah and the Legacies of Black Power

February 22, 2023February 22, 2023 Mickell Carter Black Power, hip hop, music, Pan-African, Queen Latifah

Dana Elaine Owens, also known as Queen Latifah, is renowned for her dynamic acting roles in films and TV series

Black Los Angeles and the LAPD in the Early 1960s

February 21, 2023February 20, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black politics, police brutality, police violence

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other city officials could have prevented the Watts Rebellion in August 1965 had they addressed the concerns

The Racist Origins of the Real ID Act

February 20, 2023February 19, 2023 Bea Abbott carceral state, Politics, race, racism

As of May 2023, a passport or driver’s license which proves legal residence in the U.S. will be needed to

Vaccines, Truckers, and White Supremacy between the US and Canada

February 17, 2023February 9, 2023 Rachel Zellars antebellum, Black Canadian History, Black History, Canada

On January 28, 2022, with plenty of social media forewarning, hundreds of large rigs, pick-up trucks, cars, and a few