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John Potts and Radical Student Activism

November 1, 2023October 24, 2023 Candace Cunningham black intellectual history, education, HBCU history, Higher education, Resistance, teaching

Black educator Dr. John Foster Potts may be a largely unknown figure today, but in Jim Crow-era South Carolina he

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Reckoning with Whiteness in Brazil

October 18, 2023October 16, 2023 Stephanie Reist #AAIHSRoundtable, #raceandlatinamerica, Brazil, Latin America

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America.” In a pivotal scene in Kleber Mendonca Filho’s

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Philadelphia’s Fight Against Gun Violence, Poverty, and Crime

August 31, 2023August 11, 2023 Menika Dirkson Philadelphia, violence

In 1969, the New York Times named Philadelphia the “gang capital” of America when the city had the highest rates

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On The Sixtieth Anniversary of the March on Washington

August 28, 2023August 28, 2023 Robert Greene II civil rights

In recent years, memorialization of the Civil Rights era from the 1950s and 1960s has taken on a new urgency

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Chuck D Brought Me Here: Rap, Race, and Radical Politics

August 16, 2023August 16, 2023 Christopher Rounds #HipHop50, #HipHopSeries, hip hop

This post is part of our forum on “Hip Hop at 50.”  Before I completed elementary school, Public Enemy had

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