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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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(In)Articulate while Black

April 2, 2020March 29, 2020 Yannick Marshall blackness, literacy, race, racism

I imagine that there are people who believe that Black people are too sensitive. When Blacks are called “well-spoken,” or

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Black Queer Asylum and The Year of Return

March 30, 2020March 29, 2020 Celeste Henery African Diaspora, Black Queer Identity, Immigration, LGBT

In the wake of Black History Month, I turn towards Black relations: of blood, of nation, of necessity, and the

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