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Mapping Downtown Asheville Through Protest: Black Lives Matter and Public Spaces

July 22, 2016July 17, 2016 Guest Poster black lives matter, police brutality, police violence

This is a guest post by Nathan H. Dize, a PhD student in the Department of French and Italian at

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“Most needed blessings”: The “all lives matter” debate in 1837

July 17, 2016July 13, 2016 Patrick Rael black lives matter, Henry Highland Garnet

Think the current controversy over “black lives matter” is new?  African American activists wrestled with the question almost 200 years

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“One Continuous Graveyard”: Emancipation and the Birth of the Professional Police Force

July 11, 2016July 10, 2016 Guest Poster convict leasing, policing, South

This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her

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Muhammad Ali, Freedom Road, and the Legacy of Reconstruction

June 24, 2016June 23, 2016 Guest Poster Muhammad Ali, reconstruction

Today we’re featuring a guest post by Robert Bland, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University

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Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome is a Racist Idea

June 21, 2016June 21, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi trauma

For a generation of open-minded Americans, the original Roots miniseries in 1977 uprooted fields of racist ideas of backward Africa,

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