Revisiting the Poor People’s Campaign and Its Legacy
Universal health care, a public-job guarantee, and massive wealth redistribution are not just buzzwords in cable news interviews as myriad
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Civil Rights Movement
How Black Activists Sought Healthcare Reform: A New Documentary
“The American Medical Association has never been a friend to us [African Americans],” explained the late Chicago physician Dr. Donald
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Freedom Without Citizenship, Reconciliation without Reparations
This post is part two of a two-part commentary/analysis on Black citizenship after Reconstruction. Read part one here: “Deferred Freedom
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‘I Have a Copyright’: Interview with Daniel Fleming, Winner of the 2019 Maria Stewart Prize
This is an interview with Dr. Daniel Fleming, whose article “‘I Have a Copyright’: The Privatization of Martin Luther King’s
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Voices of Freedom Outside the South: An Oral History Resource
Some of my most exciting moments as an educator have been seeing how students engage with oral histories from the
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