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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Vision of American Democracy

November 14, 2018November 19, 2018 Karen Cook Bell Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, race

Martin Luther King Jr. approached history with a reverent understanding of the complex relationship between the secular and the sacred.

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Documenting Racial Violence Through Photography

November 13, 2018December 10, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Activism, photography, Racial Violence

Earlier this year, John Ira Jennings and Damian Duffy’s graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) won the 2018

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‘The Untold Story of Marcus Garvey’: Interview with Filmmaker Roy T. Anderson

November 9, 2018November 11, 2018 Chris Shell #FilmFeatures, Jamaica, Marcus Garvey, Pan-Africanism, Rastafarianism

In today’s post, Christopher Shell, PhD Student in History at Michigan State University, interviews filmmaker Roy T. Anderson about his forthcoming

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Black Fists, Black Pride, and the 1968 Summer Olympics

November 7, 2018November 11, 2018 Louis Moore Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, Resistance

Black fists. Black men. Black pride. That’s how we will always remember bronze medalist John Carlos and gold medalist Tommie

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The Life and Legacy of Political Scientist Hanes Walton, Jr.

November 7, 2018November 11, 2018 Daniel HoSang black intellectual history, black politics, race

In 1970, Vincent Harding contributed an essay to the inaugural issue of the Journal of Black Studies titled “Black Students

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