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Envisioning Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Twenty-First Century

This is a guest post by Dr. Elwood Watson, an author, public speaker, and professor of History, African American Studies,

With the news of the Daniel Holtzclaw trial verdict, black women’s sexual assault should be front-page news. This should especially be the case

Recently, my colleague Keisha N. Blain wrote a post commemorating the anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first

President Obama would never endorse Bernie Sanders on the eve of the Democratic primary. But he definitely should. And, in

Previous AAIHS posts about Sandra Bland include an account of local civil rights groundwork in Waller County following Bland’s death,