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Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago

September 13, 2018September 18, 2018 Teona Williams Activism, Chicago, environment, Great Migration, Migration

Towering skyscrapers dotting the Lake Michigan coastline, “snowy winds,” “blistering suns,” and roaring streets described what Richard Wright aptly called

The Realness of ‘Pose’

July 26, 2018July 31, 2018 James Padilioni Jr Black Queers, Harlem, New York, television

The FX series Pose premiered in June 2018 to rave reviews for its historic depiction of the New York City house and

History, Memory, and the Power of Black Radio

March 16, 2018March 19, 2018 Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Chicago, slavery

Between 1948 and 1950, a radio series called Destination Freedom aired on WMAQ, a local Chicago NBC station. Richard Durham

An Alternative View of Du Bois’s Talented Tenth

February 19, 2018February 24, 2018 Stephanie Shaw #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, black politics, Politics, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. W. E. B. Du Bois published one of his

Teenage Feminism Decades before “Girl Power”

January 12, 2018January 15, 2018 Kera Lovell #StudentActivismForum, black feminism, student activism

*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. As civil disobedience in schools escalated in the postwar era, teenage girls