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The Pre-History of President Clinton’s Racist (and Antiracist) Liberalism

May 21, 2016May 20, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Barack Obama, electoral politics

About a week ago, former President Bill Clinton once again had to defend his 1994 crime bill at an event

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Summer Reading With W. E. B. Du Bois

May 18, 2016May 23, 2016 Phillip Luke Sinitiere

As part of my ongoing research on the life, thought, and history of W. E. B. Du Bois, this month

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Freedom, Race, and Desertion in America’s Civil War

May 9, 2016May 8, 2016 Guest Poster Civil War, freedom

This is a guest post by Jonathan Lande, winner of the 2016 Du Bois-Wells Graduate Student Paper Prize. This annual

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Museums, Newspapers, and African American Archives

May 7, 2016May 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history

The nearing completion and grand opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

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Creating an African American Identity and a New Nation

May 4, 2016May 4, 2016 Guest Poster black politics, black protest, colonial America, emancipation

This is a guest post by Daniel R. Mandell, Professor of History at Truman State University. Prof. Mandell recently received

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