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Ruminations on Juneteenth: Red as a Living Archive

June 22, 2021June 22, 2021 Endia Hayes Activism, African Diaspora, archives, Juneteenth, Resistance

                  (Black Unity Juneteenth Celebration, Eugene, Oregon, David Geitgey Sierralupe/flickr.com) On June

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Juneteenth and American Democracy

June 21, 2021June 21, 2021 Alexandra E. Stern American Civil War, black lives matter, democracy, emancipation, holidays, Juneteenth

                                       

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Postal Work and the Struggle for Black Freedom

June 18, 2021June 18, 2021 Rebecca Brenner Graham Activism, civil rights, Racial Violence, South, white supremacy

In late 1892, a railroad operator approached activist-journalist Ida B. Wells to inquire why the Black community of Memphis, Tennessee, had been

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The Historical Roots of Abolition in the Twenty-First Century

June 11, 2021June 9, 2021 Julia Bernier Activism, black radical tradition, Haiti, slavery, white supremacy

In June 2020 Mariame Kaba penned an opinion piece in the New York Times entitled, “Yes We Literally Mean Abolish

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The Afterlives of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

June 3, 2021June 2, 2021 Rose M. Brewer Activism, Black Power, education, Racial Violence, Resistance

What is it about May and Black death?  What is it about Memorial Day when it comes to white racial terrorism

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