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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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Top Five in Bad Times (+ Bonus Track)

July 12, 2016July 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, digital media

This has been an especially difficult few weeks for those with any investment in social justice, black families and black

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The “N-word”: Finding Clarity in a Redundant Debate

July 9, 2016July 9, 2016 Guest Poster

The following is a guest post co-authored by Tyler Parry and Clayton Finn. Parry is Assistant Professor of African American

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Remembering Phillis Wheatley

June 26, 2016June 25, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, Black women, Phillis Wheatley

In my last post, I commented on a specific newspaper piece from the May 18, 1827 edition of Freedom’s Journal,

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