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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Remembering Muhammad Ali: Asiatic Black Man
With the passing of Muhammad Ali – boxing’s greatest pugilist, most electric persona, and fiercest champion for racial justice –
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O.J. Simpson, Ex-Colored Man
What would it mean to live beyond the color line? To live unencumbered by race; by blackness? Black novelists have
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