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HBCUs and the Red Scare

February 14, 2023February 13, 2023 Candace Cunningham Activism, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, South

In the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, racial tensions rose as African Americans began immediately submitting school desegregation

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Migrants, Reformers, and Pittsburgh’s Labor Movement

February 8, 2023February 7, 2023 Julia W. Bernier #CanaanDim, #Roundtable, labor, NAACP, Pittsburgh, Urban League

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. On January 19, 1841,

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Ye, Trump, and the Antisemitic Alliance

February 2, 2023January 30, 2023 David Weinfeld Black Celebrity, Black Hebrew Israelites, Black-Jewish Relations, Kanye West, Trump

A Black rapper, a Latino white supremacist, and former president sat down for dinner. It sounds like a bad joke,

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Tyre Nichols and the Complexity of Institutional Racism

February 1, 2023January 31, 2023 Anique John black lives matter, Racial Violence, racism

Racial injustice, institutional racism, and police brutality are painful aspects of our society that we have not and should never

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The Life of Louis Fatio: American Slavery and Indigenous Sovereignty

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 Caroline Wood Newhall race, slavery, South

In 1892 a reporter for the Missouri-based Daily Globe-Democrat interviewed an elderly Black man by the name of Louis Fatio living near

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