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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Challenge to his Liberal Allies

February 22, 2021February 21, 2021 Jeanne Theoharis

“We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice,” Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in the spring

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Runaway Slaves To Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

January 28, 2021January 26, 2021 Nakia D. Parker African Diaspora, Gender, Resistance, slavery, South

In May 2020, the New York Times published a story about the discovery of three skulls unearthed from a grave

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A Black Brazilian Immigrant and the Struggle Civil Rights in the U.S.

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Lloyd Belton Activism, African Diaspora, black protest, Gender, race, Resistance

Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Sarah Parker Remond are usually the

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Prisoners’ Rights, Resistance, and the Law

January 13, 2021January 10, 2021 Cheryl D. Hicks #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, mass incarceration, prisons

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. Robert Chase’s compelling book, We

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Mass Incarceration and the Metaphor of Slavery

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Shannon King #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, mass incarceration, prisons, slavery

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. In We Are Not

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