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Sandra Bland (1987-2015): Art, Remembrance, Commemoration

Sandra Bland died one year ago today, July 13, 2015. As we remember Bland’s death, we also commemorate her life.

This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and

In my last post, I commented on a specific newspaper piece from the May 18, 1827 edition of Freedom’s Journal,

Today we’re featuring a guest post by Robert Bland, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University

On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina,