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Intimate History, Radical Narrative

May 22, 2020June 3, 2020 Saidiya Hartman #WaywardLives, black feminism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Gender, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Archival documents are scattered

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Confinement and Disease from Slavery to the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 14, 2020May 14, 2020 Gabriella Onikoro-Arkell carceral state, Chicago, COVID-19, geography, slavery

As many college students as well as others have moved back home during the current pandemic people’s houses are feeling

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Undaunted Resistance: Joseph Lowery and the Spirit of SCLC

April 30, 2020April 26, 2020 R. Drew Smith Activism, Black church, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, religion

Against all odds, a movement for racial justice took hold in mid-20th-century America, emerging from within the racially-heated South, and

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The Ungovernable Carceral State

April 9, 2020April 5, 2020 Melanie Newport #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, carceral state, 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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A Political Education: An Author’s Response

February 28, 2020February 23, 2020 Elizabeth Todd-Breland #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black women, education, education reform, organizing, teaching

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since

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