Black Mobility, Law, and Freedom
In 1849, an unnamed Missouri slave owner took a male slave to California to search for gold. Two years later,
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The Still Rejected Strain; or How Black Thought is Enough
*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to
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Charter Schools and the Black Independent School Movement
In October 2016, the NAACP issued a formal statement advocating a national cessation of charter school expansion pending increased oversight
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“Rikers: An American Jail”: A New Film on Mass Incarceration
This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.
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Not a Classic: The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967).
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