“My Brother in All the Ways That Count”: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson
This post is part of a week-long forum, organized by Mary Hicks, honoring Professor Jeffrey Brown Ferguson who passed away on March
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Sun Ra Speaks About the Trial of Angela Davis
Anthony Reed, in his recent article on the grammar of utopia and freedom in the music of jazz performer Sun
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The 1967 Detroit Uprising and the Failure of the Criminal Justice System
Standing before judge Robert Columbo, a Detroiter made a standard defendant’s request to be released on his own recognizance. He
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Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary Hero: An Interview with Mitch Kachun
In today’s post, historian Stephen G. Hall, Fellow at the National Humanities Center, interviews Mitch Kachun on his new book First Martyr of
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Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History opens up with a list of chattel—the names
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