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Harper’s Weekly, “The Union As It Was; The Lost Cause, Worse than Slavery” (1874) by Thomas Nast. Photo: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World

January 30, 2018February 2, 2018 Jessica Parr black rebellion, race, slave trade, slavery

Kay Wright Lewis’s new book, A Curse Upon the Nation: Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World (University

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Black Charleston and the Battle over Confederate Statues

January 29, 2018February 2, 2018 Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Charleston, racism, slavery, South Carolina, white supremacy

On January 9, 2018, the Charleston City Council deferred voting on a proposed new plaque for the John C. Calhoun

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The Historical Erasure of Violence Against Black Women

January 24, 2018January 30, 2018 Denise Lynn black feminism, black protest, Black women, Communism, NAACP, racism, sexual violence, South, white supremacy

The #MeToo movement and the recent attention to Recy Taylor’s 1944 rape has drawn much needed attention to the consistent

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Eugenics and the Modern Conservative Movement

January 19, 2018January 23, 2018 Alexandra Fair Black women, criminal justice system, Donald Trump, law, Politics, racism

On December 26, 2017, The New York Times published an op-ed by the widely known North Carolinian activist, Rev. William

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To Shape a New World: A New Book on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 15, 2018January 20, 2018 Keisha N. Blain imperialism, Martin Luther King Jr., Philosophy, reparations, social justice

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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