Top 10 of 2018 – #3 – Why White Southern Conservatives Need to Defend Confederate Monuments
*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This
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Top 10 of 2018 – #7 – The Historical Erasure of Violence Against Black Women
*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This essay–ranked number
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Literacy, History, and African American Spirituals
In his 1935 interview with Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Quarterman, a ninety-one-year-old formerly enslaved man, shared a
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The Civil Rights Movement for Intellectual Change
More than half a century since the 1960s, scholars and citizens alike continue to grapple with how our country should
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Scales of Struggle and the Carceral State
The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court dashed the hopes of those wanting judicial protections to access abortion,
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