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The 1917 Halifax Explosion and Structural Anti-Blackness in Times of Crisis

April 14, 2020April 11, 2020 Rachel Zellars Canada, Historical Memory

Last fall, two local researchers from Halifax, Nova Scotia published their original findings of racial disparities in the relief efforts

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‘A White Man Took Her’: Trauma, Loss, and Grief among the Enslaved

April 13, 2020April 12, 2020 Tyler Parry Civil War, Marriage, mourning, Post-Civil War, Racial Violence, slavery, violence

In November 1864, a formerly enslaved man named Peter Bumper and his fiance Bucinda Nelson had their marriage registered with

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Mourning the Loss of My Father: Wynton Marsalis on the Passing of Ellis Marsalis Jr.

April 7, 2020April 6, 2020 Wynton Marsalis culture, jazz, pandemic

*This post appeared on Wynton Marsalis‘ blog and appears here with his permission. My daddy passed away last night (April

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Centering Women in Occupied Territory

April 7, 2020April 5, 2020 Anne Gray Fischer #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, Black women, police brutality, police violence, policing

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing

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The Myth of Black Immunity: Racialized Disease during the COVID-19 Pandemic

April 3, 2020April 2, 2020 Chelsey Carter & Ezelle Sanford III medical racism, pandemic

As the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic sweeps across the world, troubling associations between race and disease have gone viral.

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