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Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century: An Interview with Jason Morgan Ward

November 14, 2016November 12, 2016 Stephen G. Hall black politics, Black women, Jim Crow, lynching, Mississippi, NAACP

In today’s guest post, Stephen G. Hall interviews  Jason Morgan Ward about his new book, Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and

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Voting Is Not A Right of U.S. Citizens: Revisiting the 1866 Civil Rights Act

November 6, 2016November 3, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi civil rights

This piece was originally published in AHA Today, a blog of the American Historical Association, as “The Promise and Peril of

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Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Brazil: An Interview with Kwame Dixon

November 5, 2016November 5, 2016 Jaime Alves black politics, Brazil, electoral politics

In today’s guest post, Professor Jaime Alves, ‎Assistant Professor of Anthropology at CUNY Staten Island, interviews Professor Kwame Dixon about

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Luke Cage and the African American Literary Tradition

November 1, 2016October 31, 2016 Matthew Teutsch #comicsandrace, Luke Cage

This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and

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North of Dixie: A New Book on Civil Rights Photography Beyond the South

November 1, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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