Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle: An Interview with Crystal R. Sanders
This month, I interviewed Crystal R. Sanders about her new book, A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black
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“Most needed blessings”: The “all lives matter” debate in 1837
Think the current controversy over “black lives matter” is new? African American activists wrestled with the question almost 200 years
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Top Five in Bad Times (+ Bonus Track)
This has been an especially difficult few weeks for those with any investment in social justice, black families and black
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“One Continuous Graveyard”: Emancipation and the Birth of the Professional Police Force
This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her
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La Esclava Blanca: The New Telenovela Rewriting Colombia’s History of Slavery
This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and
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