Mob Economics and Lynching Narratives
This is a guest post by Jason Morgan Ward, an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. His new
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Jim Crow
Racial Violence and Black Nationalist Politics
Someone recently asked me why the black women activists I study were so determined to leave the United States. It
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Today’s guest post comes from Edwin Jackson, a licensed funeral director and embalmer in Maryland and Oklahoma. Born and raised in
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In his 2010 CD Sophomore Slump, the Jackson, Mississippi-based artist Skipp Coon rapped in the opening track “James,” “From where
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Below are new books in African American intellectual history soon to be published or already published within the last 6
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