The Missing Link: Conservative Abolitionists, Slavery, and Yale
We’re living in one of those moments that doesn’t happen often: elite universities are suddenly interested in their slave-related pasts.
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Black Masculinity in Comic Books: An Interview with Jonathan Gayles
This month, I interviewed Dr. Jonathan Gayles, Associate Professor of African-American Studies and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Learning at Georgia
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“An Outrage”: A New Film about Lynching in the American South
This post is part of a new blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History
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Opening the Racist Closets of History: Seven Well-Meaning Americans
It seems as if everyone—except his racist supporters—are recognizing the obvious: Donald Trump is a racist. But racism extends far
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Race, Belonging, and Unconditional White Amnesty
At a raucous 2016 campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, then-candidate Donald Trump outlined his plan to curb “illegal immigration” and
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