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Black Women, History, and the Democratic Party

July 3, 2018July 9, 2018 Millington Bergeson-Lockwood Activism, black politics, Black women, electoral politics, Jim Crow

On May 30, 2018, Axios published an article announcing, “Black women feel slighted by the Democrats.” The article explains how African

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Archiving While Black

June 18, 2018June 23, 2018 Ashley Farmer archives, Historical Memory

Among the things 2018 will be known for is mainstream culture’s realization that white Americans use the police to challenge

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#SayHerName–Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls: An Interview with Andrea J. Ritchie

June 11, 2018June 16, 2018 Jenn M. Jackson Black women, police brutality, police violence

In today’s post, Jenn M. Jackson, writer and doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago,

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#SummerReading: Recommended New Books on the Black Experience

June 11, 2018June 16, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history

With summer quickly approaching, I have compiled a list of recommended new non-fiction books. All of these books, which were

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Black Bookstores and the Black Power Movement: An Interview with Paul Coates

June 5, 2018June 16, 2018 Joshua Clark Davis Baltimore, black nationalism, Philadelphia

In this post, blogger Joshua Clark Davis interviews activist Paul Coates–the father of author Ta-Nehisi Coates–on his life and early

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