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Fannie Lou Hamer’s Legacy: An Interview with Keisha N. Blain

September 27, 2021September 27, 2021 Nicole M. Gipson Activism, black feminism, black protest

This is an interview with Dr. Nicole Gipson, an elected Early Career Member of the Royal Historical Society of the

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Lil Nas X: the AIDS Activist Gen Z Needs

September 23, 2021September 21, 2021 Dan Royles Activism, black protest

Lil Nas X’s performance at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards was—as fans have come to expect—a virtuosic entry in

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Martin Luther King, Jr. and 1619

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 Robert Greene II black protest, civil rights, race

Martin Luther King, Jr. being Interviewed, with Coretta Scott King next to him, October 20, 1965 (Wikimedia Commons)   Throughout

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Slavery and Disability Discourse

September 16, 2021September 15, 2021 Christopher D. E. Willoughby racism, slavery

In an 1851 report to the Louisiana Medical Association, New Orleans physician Samuel Cartwright coined the term “drapetomania”—the disease that

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Anti-Communism and A Raisin in the Sun

September 13, 2021September 12, 2021 Denise Lynn black intellectual history, black politics, Black radicalism

                           Lorraine Hansberry Speaking to an Audience, 1959 or

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