Search Results for: Civil War

Ida Taught Me

May 16, 2020May 19, 2020 Koritha Mitchell Activism, Black radicalism, Black women, civil rights

In May 2020, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for her investigations of lynchings. She

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Steeped in the Blood: On The May 15th, 1970 Jackson State Killings

May 15, 2020May 14, 2020 Brandon James Render Mississippi, police violence, Racial Violence, student activism

On the night of May 14, 1970, Phillip Gibbs and James Earl Green made their way to Alexander Hall, a

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Undaunted Resistance: Joseph Lowery and the Spirit of SCLC

April 30, 2020April 26, 2020 R. Drew Smith Activism, Black church, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, religion

Against all odds, a movement for racial justice took hold in mid-20th-century America, emerging from within the racially-heated South, and

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A Faithful Heretic: Joseph Lowery and the Politics of the Mass Movement

April 28, 2020April 26, 2020 Corey D. B. Walker Activism, Black church, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, religion

A strange land requires a familiar song. That’s why members of the community of faith sing the Lord’s song in

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“We’ll Hold The Police Accountable!”: The Useful Meaninglessnesses of Liberal-speak

April 27, 2020April 26, 2020 Yannick Marshall police brutality, police violence, policing, race, Racial Violence, racism

It has been two years since Stephon Clark was killed in his grandmother’s backyard. Two years since Rev. Al Sharpton

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