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Life Lessons from Georgetown’s Basketball Coach John Thompson

May 18, 2021June 5, 2021 Maurice Jackson black protest, sports

John Thompson Jr. often said, “I tell everyone I speak two languages fluently—English and profanity.” He used language and stories

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Black Germans and New Forms of Resistance

May 17, 2021June 5, 2021 Tiffany Florvil Black German, Germany, mourning

In her book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, scholar Christina Sharpe described her concept of “wake work” as “a

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Universities and Cities: An Interview with Davarian Baldwin

May 13, 2021June 5, 2021 Robert Greene II education, gentrification, urban history

This is an interview with Robert Greene II, the lead associate editor of Black Perspectives, and Davarian Baldwin. Baldwin is the Paul

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Black Resistance from Augusta to BLM

May 11, 2021June 5, 2021 John Hayes and Nefertiti Robinson Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

When our work began in December 2018, we sought to confront misinformation and erasure surrounding the “riot” of May 11-12,

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On the Life and Legacy of Black Journalist Louis Lomax

May 10, 2021June 5, 2021 Joshua Clark Davis Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, journalism, Nation of Islam

We still have far too few histories of Black journalists. Even as biographers have written on Alex Haley, Ethel Payne,

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