The Rise of Green Spaces in Inner Cities
*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by urban environmentalist
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Jim Crow
A Brief History of the “Black Friend”
In June 2018, two news reports encapsulated a problem in American race relations: a white person says something racist, apologizes
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Sandra Bland, Black Women, and Texas Law Enforcement
This post is part of our online forum in honor of Sandra Bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death. The forum includes
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Black Women, History, and the Democratic Party
On May 30, 2018, Axios published an article announcing, “Black women feel slighted by the Democrats.” The article explains how African
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The Great Migration and Black Environmental History: An Interview with Brian McCammack
In today’s post, J.T. Roane, Associate Editor at Black Perspectives and an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the
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