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“Before Brown”: A CBFS Interview

January 19, 2024January 18, 2024 Lucien Baskin black queer studies, CBFS, interview, military, WWII

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Sabotage of the First Black New Orleans Journalist

January 16, 2024January 3, 2024 Bala Baptiste Civil Rights Movement, racism, Resistance

It was a hot, balmy day in the Crescent City of New Orleans in June of 1970 when Warren Brown

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Why the New Great Migration Matters

January 8, 2024January 1, 2024 Beatrice J. Adams African Diaspora, Civil Rights Movement, Great Migration, Migration

In the recent documentary “South to Black Power,” Charles Blow reaffirms his previous call for a “Second Great Migration.” His

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Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line

December 5, 2023November 30, 2023 Alyssa Lopez film, Jim Crow, police brutality, Resistance

While America’s urban areas witnessed a massive boom in the popularity of motion pictures and moviegoing in the early twentieth

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The Controversy of the Without Sanctuary Museum Exhibit

December 4, 2023December 1, 2023 Menika Dirkson Jim Crow, lynching, museums

On May 22, 1917, the lynching of Ell Persons, a Black woodcutter, occurred in a carnival-type setting in Memphis, Tennessee.

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