Is the Myth of Racial Harmony Killing Our Country?
My eyes draw open, fixing on the silhouette of the spinning blades of the ceiling fan above my bed. After
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Race Consciousness
#MuseumsRespondtoFerguson: An Interview with Aleia Brown and Adrianne Russell
This month I interviewed the founders of a new digital humanities project, #MuseumsRespondtoFerguson. Aleia Brown (left) is the co-founder of #MuseumsRespondtoFerguson
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Black Journalist T. Thomas Fortune Prophetically Predicts Today’s Political Climate
Civil rights activist and journalist T. Thomas Fortune was one of the most eloquent and instrumental voices of black America
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Does Fear of Black Men Satisfy the “Objective Reasonableness” Standard?
Another video. Another police shooting. Another Black person’s body dead on an American road. Every person is innocent until proven
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Una Mulzac, Black Women Booksellers, and Pan-Africanism
*This is the third post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.
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