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The Supreme Court and Racial Inequality

August 25, 2022August 17, 2022 Alani Golanski 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, law, Supreme Court, Voting Rights

  The Supreme Court’s infamous 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson – issued several decades after white actor Thomas Dartmouth

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Writing Black Women’s Reproductive Lives

August 24, 2022September 19, 2022 Rachel Afi Quinn Black women, Gender, reproductive justice

“I woke up feeling strangely happy. It has been accomplished! And I was still alive!” Philippa Duke Schuyler wrote these

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Black Historians, Race, and the Historical Profession

August 23, 2022August 21, 2022 Hettie Williams black intellectual history, education, teaching, W.E.B. Du Bois

“History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generations must

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Sex Wars and the Consolidation of Police Power

August 17, 2022August 12, 2022 Jessica R. Pliley #StreetsBelongToUs, black feminism, carceral state, feminism, Police

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us As other writers in

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How Policing Black Women’s Bodies Built the Modern City

August 15, 2022August 11, 2022 Simon Balto #AAIHSRoundtable, #StreetsBelongToUs, black protest, Black women, sexuality

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us In a statement both

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