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Fall Teaching in a Trump Climate

August 7, 2016August 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, Donald Trump, Politics, teaching

As the summer comes to an end and I begin to think about teaching in the fall, I wonder how

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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: An Interview with Elizabeth Hinton

July 30, 2016July 30, 2016 Garrett Felber mass incarceration, policing, poverty

This month, I interviewed Professor Elizabeth Kai Hinton on her new book, The War on Poverty to the War on

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#CharlestonSyllabus: An Interview with Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain

July 28, 2016January 1, 2017 Guest Poster #CharlestonSyllabus, Charleston, South Carolina

This interview originally appeared on Process, the blog of the Organization of American Historians, The Journal of American History, and

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“Most needed blessings”: The “all lives matter” debate in 1837

July 17, 2016July 13, 2016 Patrick Rael black lives matter, Henry Highland Garnet

Think the current controversy over “black lives matter” is new?  African American activists wrestled with the question almost 200 years

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Sandra Bland (1987-2015): Art, Remembrance, Commemoration

July 13, 2016July 12, 2016 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #sayhername, digital media, Sandra Bland

Sandra Bland died one year ago today, July 13, 2015. As we remember Bland’s death, we also commemorate her life.

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