New President, Same Old Deal: The Parallels Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Donald J. Trump
An evaluation of the first 100 days of the new President of the United States has become a tradition of
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Jim Crow
The Love Between Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks
In 1986, African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks wrote of her life-long friend Langston Hughes: “‘WHAT was Langston Hughes? An overwhelmer.
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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence, Part 4
This essay is Part Four of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first
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False Choices: Identity Politics and Lessons from the Left
Recently my academic-laden social media feeds have been filling up with denouncements of identity politics, or occasionally denouncements of those
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Capturing the Spirit of Black Pittsburgh: A Review of “Fences”
Just after Christmas, I went to see “Fences,” Denzel Washington’s film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning play. I went with
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