Measuring Racial Progress, Past and Present
If the November 2008 election of Barack Obama to the presidency provided an occasion to measure the distance the United
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Jim Crow
How Public Artists Are Exploring the History of Segregation in Baltimore
How should America publicly acknowledge its history of legal segregation? For many people, the intricate system that required whites and blacks
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Celebrating the Life and Activism of Jackie Robinson
On April 15, 2017, Major League Baseball (MLB) celebrated the 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s first MLB game. On that
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The Little Known History of Black Women Using Soda Fountains as Contested Spaces
The accurate accusation of tone-deafness has been circulating to frame the now-defunct Pepsi ad staring Kendall Jenner. For those who
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Making Gullah: A New Book on the American Imagination of Low Country Blacks
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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