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Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary Hero: An Interview with Mitch Kachun

May 30, 2018June 5, 2018 Stephen G. Hall Historical Memory, Resistance

In today’s post, historian Stephen G. Hall, Fellow at the National Humanities Center, interviews Mitch Kachun on his new book First Martyr of

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Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History

May 18, 2018May 22, 2018 Sasha Turner Civil War, landownership, slavery

The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History opens up with a list of chattel—the names

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Black Male Genius and the Distortion of Black History

May 17, 2018May 22, 2018 Nicole Jackson Black women, hip hop, music, slavery

In the aftermath of Kanye West’s recent media blitz, there was considerable media attention paid to his parroting and amplifying

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Progressive Movements and the Importance of Failure

May 10, 2018May 13, 2018 Austin McCoy black politics, black protest, civil rights, Resistance

Mary Frances Berry’s History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times could not have arrived

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Black Women and the Scottsboro Boys

May 7, 2018May 13, 2018 Denise Lynn Activism, Black women, Communist Party

On March 25, 1931, nine young Black men—Haywood Patterson, Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Andy and Roy Wright, Olin Montgomery, Ozie

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