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The International MLK

January 17, 2022January 16, 2022 Robert Greene II Civil Rights Movement, Internationalism, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK Day, Vietnam War

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1959 Morehouse Commencement Address offered the young pastor an opportunity to tell the graduates of his

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Radio Journalism and Civil Rights

January 13, 2022January 12, 2022 Bala James Baptiste black nationalism, Chicago, civil rights, journalism, New Orleans, Radio

The first radio stations that targeted all of their programming toward African Americans in Chicago and New Orleans disseminated different types

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NBA 75 and Black Sporting Memory

December 15, 2021December 14, 2021 Robert Greene II Basketball, desegregation, Harlem Globetrotters, Jackie Robinson, National Basketball League

The National Basketball Association’s 2021-2022 season is also the league’s 75th anniversary. As such the league is using a variety

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(Re)locating Sites of Memory in Appalachia Through Black Spaces and Stories

December 10, 2021December 9, 2021 Kristan McCullum Appalachia, Black Appalachia, desegregation, Kentucky, Memory

“You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the

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What Civil Rights Acts: The Times-Picayune’s Editorial Silence on Civil Rights

December 2, 2021December 1, 2021 Bala Baptiste desegregation, Editorial, integration, Louisiana, New Orleans, Newspapers

The New Orleans morning daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune, during the 11-year period between 1957 and 1968, failed to publish a

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