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Black Mayors, Black Politics, and the Gary Convention

March 22, 2022March 21, 2022 Brandon Stokes #GaryConvention50, Activism, black politics, Black Power

The National Black Political Convention of 1972 saw many national giants on the Black political scene with Amiri Baraka and

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Until I Am Free: Teaching Fannie Lou Hamer Past and Present

February 3, 2022February 2, 2022 Nicole M. Gipson black politics, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, SNCC

  What we don’t know about the real life of the civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer could fill a

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NBA 75 and Black Sporting Memory

December 15, 2021December 14, 2021 Robert Greene II Basketball, desegregation, Harlem Globetrotters, Jackie Robinson, National Basketball League

The National Basketball Association’s 2021-2022 season is also the league’s 75th anniversary. As such the league is using a variety

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Floyd McKissick’s Soul City: An Interview with Thomas Healy

November 15, 2021November 15, 2021 Joshua Clark Davis black politics, Civil Rights Movement, race

In 1969, Black Power advocate Floyd McKissick announced plans to develop Soul City, a multiracial community in rural Warren County,

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Critical Race Theory and the Misappropriating of Martin Luther King, Jr.

September 30, 2021September 29, 2021 Tyler Parry black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement, education

Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking Against the Vietnam War, St. Paul Campus, University of Minnesota, April 27, 1967 (Wikimedia Commons)

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