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Frederick Douglass, ca. 1879. George K. Warren. Photo: National Archives and Records Administration/Wikipedia.

Slavery and the Family Tree

May 15, 2019May 14, 2019 Whitney Stewart Historical Memory, race, Racial Violence, racism, slavery, South

How do you make a family tree when you may not know your family history? Beyond the very real physical

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Digital Du Bois

May 13, 2019April 30, 2019 Lavelle Porter Activism, art, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, Paris, race, W.E.B. Du Bois

The publication of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America gives new meaning to Du Bois’s famous sentence from

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Deferred Freedom Dreams in the Quest for Black Economic Citizenship

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 Westenley Alcenat Constitution, economic justice, law, Racial Capitalism, slavery

A little more than 153 years ago, in the aftermath of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in the United States

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Mack Ingram and the Policing of Black Sexuality

May 7, 2019May 5, 2019 Denise Lynn Activism, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Gender, Jim Crow, race, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

In 1951, Mack Ingram was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor for looking at a

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Frederick Douglass and the Periodization of Reconstruction

April 25, 2019April 22, 2019 Doug Egerton #DouglassForward, black politics, Frederick Douglass, race, Resistance, slavery

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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