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Until I Am Free: Teaching Fannie Lou Hamer Past and Present

February 3, 2022February 2, 2022 Nicole M. Gipson black politics, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, SNCC

  What we don’t know about the real life of the civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer could fill a

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The Black Radical Tradition in *The Dawn of Everything*

January 21, 2022January 20, 2022 Kevin Suemnicht black intellectual history, black lives matter, slavery

Amidst ongoing racial injustice, the threat of global climate change, and the disappointing aftermath of the George Floyd Rebellion, is

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The International MLK

January 17, 2022January 16, 2022 Robert Greene II Civil Rights Movement, Internationalism, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK Day, Vietnam War

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1959 Morehouse Commencement Address offered the young pastor an opportunity to tell the graduates of his

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MLK And Lillian Smith

December 20, 2021December 19, 2021 Matthew Teutsch Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Gender, South

On Sunday October 16, 1960, three days before the October 19 Atlanta sit ins where Martin Luther King, Jr. was

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NBA 75 and Black Sporting Memory

December 15, 2021December 14, 2021 Robert Greene II Basketball, desegregation, Harlem Globetrotters, Jackie Robinson, National Basketball League

The National Basketball Association’s 2021-2022 season is also the league’s 75th anniversary. As such the league is using a variety

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