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The Enduring Controversies of the N-Word

June 30, 2017July 3, 2017 Tyler Parry digital media, language, race, racism

Hearing the N-word uttered in popular media is rather familiar in the United States. A version of the word is

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Can Reparations Save American Politics?

June 29, 2017July 1, 2017 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, University of Chicago

Nowhere does ‘the perfect become the enemy of the good’ so incessantly than in contemporary debates over reparations. Perhaps this

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Frederick Douglass, Real Estate Developer

June 19, 2017June 22, 2017 Joshua Clark Davis Baltimore, Frederick Douglass, landownership

Few people passing through Baltimore’s Fell’s Point neighborhood ever step onto the 500 block of South Dallas Street. The narrow

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The Gift of Black Folk and the Emancipation of American History

June 19, 2017June 21, 2017 Westenley Alcenat black intellectual history, reconstruction, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois

“Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warming have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts

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Racial Violence on the Anniversary of the Charleston Massacre

June 17, 2017June 19, 2017 Keisha N. Blain #CharlestonSyllabus, Charleston, Racial Violence, violence

On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into a predominantly black church in Charleston, South Carolina. That evening, a

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