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The Reconstruction Origins of Black Wall Street

June 1, 2021May 30, 2021 Alexandra E. Stern archives, black protest, race, Resistance, Tulsa

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre targeted and destroyed the city’s prosperous Greenwood District, home to a vibrant economy of Black-owned businesses that

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George Floyd and the Global Fight for Black Lives

May 26, 2021June 5, 2021 Mickell Carter Black Europe, black internationalism, blackness, police brutality, police violence

The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, acted as a catalyst for Black Lives Matter protests around the

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Black Resistance from Augusta to BLM

May 11, 2021June 5, 2021 John Hayes and Nefertiti Robinson Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence

When our work began in December 2018, we sought to confront misinformation and erasure surrounding the “riot” of May 11-12,

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On the Life and Legacy of Black Journalist Louis Lomax

May 10, 2021June 5, 2021 Joshua Clark Davis Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, journalism, Nation of Islam

We still have far too few histories of Black journalists. Even as biographers have written on Alex Haley, Ethel Payne,

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British Racial Violence and Transatlantic Black Activism

May 6, 2021June 5, 2021 E. James West Activism, African Diaspora, black protest, police violence, Racial Violence

February of this year marked the thirtieth anniversary of the killing of Rolan Adams, a Black British teenager who was

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