Nothing is Impossible: Black History and Black Futures as a Flag Falls
At dawn on June 27, 2015, Bree Newsome (with support from local activists) scaled the flag pole in front of
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Confederate Flags in the Jim Crow North
Photo: Opponents of local civil rights activists raise a Confederate flag in the Bronx, July 1963 *** Over the years,
Read moreCulture Warriors: Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring and Afro-Asian Critique
**This is the fifth installment of my series on Afro-Asia, examining the cultural and political exchanges and historical connections between people of
Read moreTeaching Phillis Wheatley in Light of Freddie Gray
Noelle Trent wrote a great post about how to locate “the reality of students’ lives in the themes and trends
Read moreD.W. Griffith’s Interracial Same-Sex Kiss
Cross-posted from OutHistory.org If there’s one thing I’ve learned studying history it is that the world is always more complicated
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