Radio Journalism and Civil Rights
The first radio stations that targeted all of their programming toward African Americans in Chicago and New Orleans disseminated different types
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From Dessalines to Garvey: the Battles of Psychological Liberation
Over two centuries apart, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Marcus Mosiah Garvey espoused ideas and expounded principles of liberation that descendants of
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MLK And Lillian Smith
On Sunday October 16, 1960, three days before the October 19 Atlanta sit ins where Martin Luther King, Jr. was
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Flyboy Meets Guerrilla Scholar
Mulling over how to deal with the passing of Robert Farris Thompson, the famed “guerilla scholar,” as he termed himself—he
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What Civil Rights Acts: The Times-Picayune’s Editorial Silence on Civil Rights
The New Orleans morning daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune, during the 11-year period between 1957 and 1968, failed to publish a
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