Me, My Mom, and Her Mental Illness
Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read
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The Radical and Transnational Roots of Black History Month in Britain
In 1926, Carter G. Woodson, historian and founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, announced
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The Disappearance of Eve and Sall: Escaping Slavery in North Carolina
*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. Between 1829
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Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning
Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.
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How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights
Following the lead of Martin Luther King, Jr., Black civil rights activists dismantled Jim Crow legislation with colorblind logic. Yet,
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