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New President, Same Old Deal: The Parallels Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Donald J. Trump

April 3, 2017April 6, 2017 Ameer Hasan Loggins Donald Trump, presidents, racism, Trumpism

An evaluation of the first 100 days of the new President of the United States has become a tradition of

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“An Outrage”: A New Film about Lynching in the American South

March 22, 2017March 27, 2017 Michael T. Barry Jr. #FilmFeatures, documentary, film, lynching, South

This post is part of a new blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History

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Opening the Racist Closets of History: Seven Well-Meaning Americans

March 21, 2017March 25, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Assimilationism, racism

It seems as if everyone—except his racist supporters—are recognizing the obvious: Donald Trump is a racist. But racism extends far

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Zora Neale Hurston’s Radical Black Love

March 18, 2017March 21, 2017 Guest Poster Harlem Renaissance

by Ayesha Hardison and Randal Maurice Jelks When Zora Neale Hurston published Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937, she

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“Held in Trust by History:” The Intellectual Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.

March 16, 2017March 18, 2017 Christopher Tinson Activism, black intellectual history, Historiography

On the morning of December 11, 2016, a notice in the Chicago area news read as follows: “Author Lerone Bennett

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