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Radio Journalism and Civil Rights

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

Over two centuries apart, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Marcus Mosiah Garvey espoused ideas and expounded principles of liberation that descendants of

“I was numb, but it was from not knowing just what this new life would hold for me.” —Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

In 1831, Nat Turner—who led a band of bondpeople into insurrection in Southampton, Virginia –was executed, quelling what a great

Mulling over how to deal with the passing of Robert Farris Thompson, the famed “guerilla scholar,” as he termed himself—he