Remembering, Rethinking, and Renaming the Watts Rebellion
Stop referring to what happened in Los Angeles from August 11- 16, 1965 as the Watts Riot. Call the events
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On the Making and Timely Re-Release of Reluctant Reformers
In 1974, Howard University Press published a powerful book documenting how racist ideas and practices incapacitated the US’s most historically
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Unmarked and Unburied: the Unsettling of Black Death
The contemporary “discovery” of unmarked graves and unburied bodies of African Americans remains a disturbing reality of the Black experience.
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The Black Athlete and the Vote
In 1946, Joe Louis, the heavyweight champion of the world, stood in front of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare
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The Black Roots of “Rights and Privileges”
“This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the
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