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When the Nevada Supreme Court Tackled Racial Bias

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 Randolph M. Fiedler & Jocelyn S. Murphy black lives matter, George Floyd, Las Vegas, police brutality, Supreme Court

Thirty years ago, seeking to address “the civil unrest in Las Vegas” triggered by decades-long discrimination against Black people throughout

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Betting on Black: Gambling and Gaming in the ‘Mississippi of the West’

May 4, 2022May 5, 2022 Kendra Gage, Javon Johnson, and Tyler D. Parry #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackLasVegas, Jim Crow

      In the famous 1954 Ebony article “Negroes can’t win in Las Vegas,” James Goodrich dubbed Sin City

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How Josephine Baker Challenged Las Vegas Racism

May 3, 2022May 4, 2022 Claytee White #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackLasVegas, Black women

By the mid-twentieth century, Las Vegas’ reputation as the “Mississippi of the West” was well-earned. As Black Americans from the

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Introducing “Black Las Vegas”

May 2, 2022May 1, 2022 Tyler Parry #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackLasVegas, black politics

Building its reputation upon tourism, gaming, and a constant search to innovate the entertainment industry, visitors to Las Vegas can

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The Black “New South” in Intellectual History 

April 20, 2022April 21, 2022 Robert Greene II Black New South, Historiography, Intellectual History, New South, South

Atlanta protestors and National Guard at Black Lives Matter protest, Atlanta, June 1, 2020 The idea of the New South

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