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African Deep Thought

April 3, 2024March 29, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Black Studies

  The recent increased attention given to understanding racism, critical white studies, and anti-racist politics must also include an investigation

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The Harmfulness of Black Codes in the State of Alabama

March 29, 2024March 28, 2024 Daphne Calhoun #BlackCodes, #BooksArchivesMonuments, reconstruction

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” When the Civil War

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The Divine Nine and the Formation of Black Studies

March 28, 2024March 27, 2024 James R. Morgan, III #BlackHistory, #BlackStudies, #BooksArchivesMonuments, Fraternity, Sorority

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” As a fourth-generation member

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Northern Journalism in the Promotion of the Lost Cause

March 26, 2024March 27, 2024 Marvin Walker #BooksArchivesMonuments, antiblackness, Black Newspapers, Black Reconstruction, Jim Crow

This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” Since the age of

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The Problem with Baltimore

March 22, 2024March 21, 2024 Anthony Smooth police brutality, racism, slavery, urban history

In 2015, Harvard economists Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren did a study on how the socioeconomic conditions of the neighborhoods

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