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Race and the Cost of Public Goods

September 24, 2021September 23, 2021 John D. Fairfield capitalism, racism, white supremacy

Children at Kosciusko Swimming Pool, Brooklyn, New York, 1970 (Wikimedia Commons)   In The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs

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Martin Luther King, Jr. and 1619

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 Robert Greene II black protest, civil rights, race

Martin Luther King, Jr. being Interviewed, with Coretta Scott King next to him, October 20, 1965 (Wikimedia Commons)   Throughout

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Dr. Carlos E. Russell and the Origins of Black Solidarity Day

September 14, 2021September 13, 2021 Kaysha Corinealdi black internationalism, black protest, Pan-Africanism

  A young Black woman demonstrator at a rally at the Capitol protests voting rights limitations contained in bills written

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Bob Moses and the Fighting Spirit of Black Intellectual History

July 28, 2021July 27, 2021 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement

The recent passing of Bob Moses offers a quiet moment to consider the varied lessons intellectual historians—and others—should take from

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Black Resistance, Historical Memory, and Monuments

July 6, 2021July 4, 2021 Adam Domby Activism, black protest

While commentators often point to 2015 (after the Mother Emmanuel shooting) or 2017 (after the Charlottesville terrorist attack) as the

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